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Physics and Philosophy
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Tradition in Science
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Relativity and Its Roots
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Holton, Gerald, and Yehuda Elkana, eds.
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The Scientific Imagination
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William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens
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Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude
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Frontiers of Astronomy
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The Nature of the Universe
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On Stonehenge
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Steady-state Cosmology Revisited
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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Treatise on Light
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The Road of Science and the Ways to God
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The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
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Science and Music
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Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens
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Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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