Coming of Age in the Milky Way (75 page)

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Drake, Stillman.
Galileo
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Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography
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Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
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The Starry Messenger, Letters on Sunspots
, and
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Tycho Brahe
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Dukas, Helen, and Banesh Hoffmann, eds.
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Duns Scotus.
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The Philosophy of Physical Science
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Eigen, Manfred, and Ruthild Winkler.
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Einstein, Albert.
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Ideas and Opinions
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The Meaning of Relativity
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Out of My Later Years
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The Principle of Relativity
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
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Sidelights on Relativity
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The World As I See It
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The Firmament of Time
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Epictetus.
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Discourses
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The Elements
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The Mind’s Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context
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The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
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Feynman, Richard P
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The Character of Physical Low.
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—————, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands.
The Feynman Letures of Physics
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Flurry, Robert L.
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Foundations of the Unity of Science
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Fraser, J.T.
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Frazer, James George.
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Freeman, R.B.
Charles Darwin: A Companion
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French, A.P.
Newtonian Mechanics
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Special Relativity
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—————, and Edwin F. Taylor.
An Introduction to Quantum Physics
. New York: Norton, 1978.

—————, ed.,
Einstein: A Centenary Volume
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—————, and P.J. Kennedy, eds.
Niels Bohr: A Centenary Volume
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Freud, Sigmund.
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The Future of an Illusion
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Freund, Philip.
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. London: Allen & Unwin, 1964.

Friedman, Michael.
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Fritzsch, Harald.
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