Coming of Age in the Milky Way (80 page)

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Subtle Is the Lord… The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
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A Tribute to Niels Bohr
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Papagiannis, M., ed.
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Parker, Barry.
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Parr, Charles McKew.
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Parry, J.H.
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Pasachoff, Jay M.
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Patterson, Colin.
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Pauli, Wolfgang.
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Pauling, Linus.
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Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia.
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Peacocke, Arthur.
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Intimations of Reality: Critical Realism in Science and Religion
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Perkins, Donald H.
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Philip, J.A.
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Philo.
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Republic
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Playfair, John.
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Plotinus.
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The Six Enneads
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Moralia
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Poincaré, Henri.
Science and Hypothesis
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Science and Method
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The Value of Science
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Polanyi, Michael.
Personal Knowledge
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Science, Faith and Society
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The Study of Man
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The Description of the World
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Ponnamperuna, Cyril.
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Popper, Karl.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
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Prestage, E.
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Ptolemy.
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The Web of Relief
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Rabel, Gabrielle.
Kant
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Philosophy After Darwin
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Ray, John.
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Reichenbach, Hans.
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Reines, Frederick, ed.
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Rhys, H.H., ed.
Seventeenth Century Science and the Arts
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Rist, John M., ed.
The Stoics
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Roe, Derek.
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Rood, Robert T., and James S. Trefil.
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Rosen, Edward.
Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution
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Rosen’s commentaries on Copernicus’s
On the Revolutions
, along with short related documents.

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Kepler’s Somnium
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Three Copernican Treatises
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Rosenberg, David, ed.
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Rosenthal-Schneider, Use.
Reality and Scientific Truth
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Rossi, Paolo.
The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico
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Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science
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Rothenberg, Jerome, ed.
Technicians of the Sacred
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Rowan-Robinson, Michael.
The Cosmological Distance Ladder
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Rowe, W.L.
The Cosmological Argument
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Rozer, H.F.
History of Ancient Geography
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Rucker, Rudy.
The Fourth Dimension and How to Get There
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Infinity and the Mind
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Rudnicki, Jozef.
Nicholas Copernicus
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Ruse, Michael.
The Darwinian Revolution
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Russell, Bertrand.
The ABC of Relativity
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