Coming of Age in the Milky Way (73 page)

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The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1924.

Bok, Bart J., and Priscilla Bok.
The Milky Way
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Boltzmann, Ludwig.
Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems
, ed. Brian McGuinness. Boston: Reidel, 1974.

Bondi, Hermann.
Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

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Relativity and Common Sense
. New York: Dover, 1964. Innovative popularization.

Bonola, Roberto.
Non-Euclidean Geometry
. New York: Dover, 1955. On the origins of the geometries employed by Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Boodin, John.
Cosmic Evolution
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Boorse, Henry A., and Lloyd Motz, eds.
The World of the Atom
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Boorstin, Daniel.
The Discoverers
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Born, Max.
The Born-Einstein letters
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Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
. New York: Dover, 1965,

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My Life
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The Restless Universe
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Bowker, J.
The Sense of God
. London: Oxford University Press, 1973,

Boxer, Charles R.,
The Portuguese Seaborne Empire: 1415–1825
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Bracewell, Ronald N.
The Galactic Club
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Bradshaw, M.J.
A New Geology
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Braithwaite, R.B.
Scientific Explanation
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Brandon, S.G.F.
Time and Mankind: An Historical and Philosophical Study of Mankind’s Attitude to the Phenomena of Change
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Brecher, Kenneth, and Michael Fiertag, eds.
Astronomy of the Ancients
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Brecht, Bertolt.
Galileo
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Bridgman, Percy.
The Logic of Modern Physics
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Brittan, Gordon.
Kant’s Theory of Science
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Broad, C.D.
Leibniz: An Introduction
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Scientific Thought
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Brodetsky, S.
Sir Isaac Newton
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Bronowski, Jacob.
The Ascent of Man
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

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The Common Sense of Science
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

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The Identity of Man
. Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1966.

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Magic, Science, and Civilization
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

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The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978.

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Science and Human Values
. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

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A Sense of the Future
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977.

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The Visionary Eye
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978.

Brooks, Daniel R., and E.O. Wiley.
Evolution as Entropy
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Brown, Laurie M., and Lillian Hoddeson, eds.
The Birth of Particle Physics
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Brown, Lloyd.
The Story of Maps
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Bruno, Giordano.
The Ash Wednesday Supper
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The Ash Wednesday Supper
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Buchwald, Jed.
From Maxwell to Microphysics
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Bucke, Richard.
Cosmic Consciousness
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Buckley, Paul, and F. David Peat.
A Question of Physics
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Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de.
Selections from Natural History, General and Particular
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Bunbury, E.H.
A History of Ancient Geography
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Bunge, Mario.
Causality and Modern Science
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Burchfield, J.D. Lord
Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
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Burckhardt, Jacob.
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
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Burger, Dionys.
Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe
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Flatland
.

Burkert, Walter.
Greek Religion
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Burnet, Thomas.
Sacred Theory of the Earth
. London: Centaur Press, 1965. Reprint of 1691 edition.

Burnham, Robert, Jr.
Burnham’s Celestial Handbook
. New York: Dover, 1978. Compendium of astronomical information and mythological lore on the major stars and nebulae.

Burtt, E. A.
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modem Science
. New York: Doubleday, 1932.

Bury, John Bagnell.
The Idea of Progress
. New York: Dover, 1960.

Butterfield, Herbert.
The Origins of Modern Science, 1300–1800
. New York: Macmillan, 1951. Overview of concepts implicated in the rise of the scientific world view.

Buttmann, Gunther.
The Shadow of the Telescope
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Bynum, W.F., E.J. Brown, and Roy Porter, eds.
Dictionary of the History of Science
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Calder, Nigel.
The Comet Is Coming!
New York: Viking, 1980.

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Einstein’s Universe
. New York: Penguin, 1980.

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Timescale: An Atlas of the Fourth Dimension
. New York: Viking, 1983.

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Violent Universe
. New York: Viking, 1969. Popular survey of high-energy astrophysics.

Cameron, A.G.W.
Interstellar Communication: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Campanella, Tommaso.
The Defense of Galileo of Thomas Campanella
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Campbell, Bernard.
Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man’s Adaptations
. Chicago: Aldine, 1966.

Campbell, Lewis, and William Garnett.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
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Capek, Milic, ed.
The Concepts of Space and Time
. Boston: Reidel, 1976. Anthology of historical writings.

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The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics
. New York: Van Nostrand, 1961.

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Philosophy of Space and Time
. New York: Dover, 1958.

Carnap, Rudolf.
Foundations of Logic and Mathematics
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Carrigan, Richard A., Jr., and W. Peter Trower, eds.
Particle Physics in the Cosmos
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Carus, Paul.
The Religion of Science
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Caspar, Max.
Kepler
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Cassirer, Ernst.
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
. New York: Dover, 1953.

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The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy
, trans. Mario Domandi. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

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Kant’s Life and Thought
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Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan.
Eddington, the Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Memoir of Eddington by his eminent pupil.

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An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure
. New York: Dover, 1967.

Chappie, J.A.V.
Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
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Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de.
Man’s Place in Nature
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The Phenomenon of Man
. New York: Harper, 1959.

Cheng, David C., and Gerard K. O’Neill.
Elementary Particle Physics
. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979. Graduate-level textbook.

Child, J.M.
The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow
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Choquet-Bruhat, Y., and T.M. Karade.
On Relativity Theory
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Christianson, Gale E.
In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times
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Cicero.
De Fato
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The Nature of the Gods
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De Natura Deorum
.

Clagett, Marshall, ed.
Critical Problems in the History of Science
. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

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The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages
. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959. Pre-Galilean dynamics.

Clark, David H., and F. Richard Stephenson.
The Historical Supernovae
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Clark, Grahame.
World Prehistory: An Outline
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1961.

Clark, Ronald W.
Einstein: The Life and Times
. New York: World, 1971. Nontechnical biography with minimal stress on Einstein’s scientific research.

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The Survival of Charles Darwin: Biography of a Man and an Idea
. New York: Random House, 1984. Popular biography with an emphasis on the fortunes of Darwinism following its founder’s death.

Clark, Stuart.
Towards the Edge of the Universe: A Review of Modern Cosmology
. New York: Springer, 1999.

Clark, Thomas Henry, and C. W. Steam.
Geological Evolution of North America
. New York: Ronald, 1968.

Clayton, Donald C.
Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Graduate-level textbook.