Coming of Age in the Milky Way (76 page)

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Galileo.
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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
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The Sidereal Messenger
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The Starry Messenger
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The Creation of the Universe
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Thirty Years That Shook Physics
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Gardner, Martin.
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Garnet, Jacques.
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Garnett, Christopher B.
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Gell-Mann, Murray, and Yuval Ne’eman.
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Ghani, Abdul.
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Ghyka, Matila.
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Gibbon, Edward.
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Gibbons, G.W., S.W. Hawking, and S.T.C. Siklos.
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Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
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The Edge of Objectivity
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Gingerich, Owen, ed.
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Goldman, T., and Michael Martin Nieto, eds.
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Goldsmith, Donald, ed.
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The Search for Life in the Universe
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Goldstein, Thomas.
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Golino, Carlo L.
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Gorman, Peter.
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Gottfried, Kurt, and Victor F. Weisskopf.
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Gould, Rupert
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Graham, Loren R.
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Grant, Edward.
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Much Ado About Nothing: Theories of the Infinite Void
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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Physical Science in the Middle Ages
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A Source Book in Medieval Science
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Grant, Michael.
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From Alexander to Cleopatra
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Green, Michael, John Schwartz, and Edward Witten.
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—————, and D. Gross, eds.
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Greenburg, Sidney.
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Greene, Brian.
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Greene, John.
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Gregory, Joshua Craven.
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Guillemard, Francis Henry.
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Guth, Alan H.
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Haber, Francis.
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Haeckel, Ernst.
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The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
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Haile, H.G.
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Haldane, E.S.
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Hall, A.R.
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Halley, Edmond.
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Hanson, Norwood Russell.
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Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of Science
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Patterns of Discovery
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Hapgood, Charles H.
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Hardin, Garrett.
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Harman, P.M.
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Harrison, Edward.
Cosmology: The Science of the Universe
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Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe
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Harrison, Jane.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
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Hartmann, William K.
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Hassan, Z. and C.H. Lai, eds.
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Hawkes, Jacquetta.
The First Great Civilizations
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History of Mankind
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Hawking, Stephen W., and G.F.R. Ellis.
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

—————, and W. Israel, eds.
General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey
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—————, and M. Rocek, eds.
Superspace and Supergravity
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Proceedings of a 1980 Cambridge conference.

Hawkins, Gerald.
Beyond Stonehenge
. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

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Stonehenge Decoded
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Hayek, F.A.
The Counter-Revolution of Science
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Hazard, Cyril, and Simon Mitton.
Active Galactic Nuclei
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Healey, R.
Time, Reduction and Reality
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Heath, L.R.
The Concept of Time
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Heath, Thomas.
Aristarchus of Samos
. New York: Dover, 1981.

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Greek Astronomy
. London: Dent, 1932.

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A History of Greek Mathematics
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