Coming of Age in the Milky Way (72 page)

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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

—Samuel Johnson

 

The following lists many of the titles consulted in researching this book. In the interest of brevity only books are included, and not articles or technical papers.

Abbott, Edwin A.
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The History of Astronomy
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Adamczewski, Jan.
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Adams, Frank Dawson.
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Adams, Henry.
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Afnan, Soheil M.
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Ager, D.V.
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Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ’Abd al-Ghaffar, al-Kazwini al-Ghifari.
Epitome of the

Ancient History of Persia
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Albritton, Claude C., Jr.
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Alexander, H.G., ed.
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Alic, Margaret.
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Allen, C.W.
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Allen, J.M., ed.
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Allen, Richard Hinckley.
Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning
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Aller, Lawrence H., and Dean B. McLaughlin, eds.
Stellar Structure
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. Collection of technical papers of historical interest.

Alvarez, Luis W.
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Autobiography of the versatile researcher in accelerator physics and nuclear fusion.

Amaldi, Ginestra.
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Andrade, Edward Neville da Costa.
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Anthony,
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Appleman, Philip, ed.
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Aristotle.
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The Complete Works of Aristotle
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Armitage, Angus.
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. New York: Barnes, 1962.

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Sun, Stand Thou Still: The Life and Work of Copernicus
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Edmond Halley
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The World of Copernicus
. New York: Mentor, 1951.

Asimov, Isaac.
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Atkins, P.W.
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Atkinson, R.J.C.
Stonehenge
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Augustine of Hippo.
City of God
, trans. Henry Bettenson. London: Pelican, 1972.

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Confessions
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Avicenna.
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Ayer, A.J.
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Baade, Walter.
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Bailey, Cyril.
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The Greek Atomists and Epicurus
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Bailey, James.
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Banville, John.
Doctor Copernicus
. London: Grenada, 1984. A novel, light on science but strong on personality,—————.
Kepler: A Novel
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Barnett, Lincoln.
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Barrow, John D., and Frank Tipler.
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Beer, Arthur, and K.A. Strand, eds.
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Concepts of Modem Physics
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Bell, A.E.
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Bell, Christopher.
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Bell, E.T.
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Benacerraf, Paul, and Hilary Putnam, eds.
Philosophy of Mathematics
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Berendzen, Richard, ed.
Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man
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—————, Richard Hart, and Daniel Seeley.
Man Discovers the Galaxies
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Berger, A., ed.
The Big Bang and Georges Lemaître
. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985. Papers presented at a symposium at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1983, honoring the originator of the big bang theory.

Bergmann, Peter G.
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Berkeley, George.
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Berkhuijsen, Elly M., and Richard Wielebinski, eds.
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. Boston: Reidel, 1978. Proceedings of a 1977 astronomical symposium.

Bernal, J.D.
The Origin of Life
. London: Weidenfeld, 1967.

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Science in History
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Bernstein, Jeremy.
Einstein
. New York: Viking, 1973. Mines ground left largely untouched by other biographies.

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Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy
. New York: Basic Books, 1980. Anecdotal profile of the pathfinding physicist.

—————, and Gerald Feinberg, eds.
Cosmological Constants
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

Berry, Michael.
Principles of Cosmology and Gravitation
. London: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Berry, W.B.N.
Growth of a Prehistoric Time Scale
. San Francisco: Freeman, 1968.

Brief introduction to the development of stratigraphy and the emergence of a geochronological system.

Bertocci, P.A.
The Empirical Argument for God in Late British Thought
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938.

Bertotti, B., F. de Felice, and A. Pascolini.
General Relativity and Gravitation
. Boston: Reidel, 1984. Papers presented at a 1983 conference.

Beyerchen, Alan D.
Scientists Under Hitler
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977. Includes accounts of Max Planck’s exemplary career and tragic life.

Bienkowska, Barbara, ed.
The Scientific World of Copernicus
. Boston: Reidel, 1973.

Billingham, John, ed.
Life in the Universe
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Blaauw, Adriaan, and Maarten Schmidt, eds.
Galactic Structure
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Blacker, Carmen, and Michael Loewe, eds.
Ancient Cosmologies
. London: Allen & Unwin, 1975.

Blackmore, John T.
Ernst Mach
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Blake, George.
British Ships and Shipbuilders
. London: Collins, 1946. Illustrated.

Blum, Harold F.
Time’s Arrow and Evolution
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1968. Study of evolution and thermodynamics.

Boas, Franz.
The Mind of Primitive Man
. New York: Macmillan, 1938.

Bochner, Salomon.
The Role of Mathematics in the Rise of Science
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Boethius, Ancius.
The Consolation of Philosophy
, trans. V.E. Watts. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.

Bohm, David.
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957.

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The Special Theory of Relativity
. Reading, Mass.: Benjamin/Cummings, 1965. Some mathematics.

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order
. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

Bohr, Niels.
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