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—————. Superforce. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. Popular account of grand unified theory.
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DeBeer, Gavin. Charles Darwin, Evolution by Natural Selection. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964. Succinct account of Darwin’s life, de Broglie, Louis. New Perspectives in Physics. New York: Basic Books, 1962.
—————, Louis-Armand, Pierre-Henri Simon, et al. Einstein. New York: Peebles Press, 1979. Centenary observations.
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—————. Principles of Philosophy, trans. Valentine Rodger Miller and Reese P. Miller. Boston: Reidel, 1983.
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—————. Lives of the Philosophers, trans. R.D. Hicks. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
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—————. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics. London: Oxford University Press, 1981. Textbook that educated a generation of physicists.
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—————. Tycho Brahe. Edinburgh: 1890; New York: Dover, 1963. Standard biography.
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—————. Ideas and Opinions, trans. Sonja Bargmann. New York: Dell, 1979.
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—————, and Leopold Infeld. The
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Examination of symmetry in classical and quantum physics, with an emphasis on group theory.
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—————. The Elements, ed. and trans. Thomas L. Heath. 3 vols. New York: Dover, 1956.
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—————, and Robert Shapiro. Life Beyond Earth: An Intelligent Earthling’s Guide to Life in the Universe. New York: Morrow, 1980.
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—————. The Mind’s Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Reflections on the place of life and intelligence in an evolving cosmos.
—————. The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe. New York: Morrow, 1977, 1983.
—————. The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Report on inflationary cosmology prior to the discovery of dark energy.
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—————. The Character of Physical Low. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1965. Feynman lectures on philosophy of science.
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—————. Foundations of the Unity of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946.
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—————, and P.J. Kennedy, eds. Niels Bohr: A Centenary Volume. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.
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—————. The Future of an Illusion, trans. James Strachey. New York: Norton, 1961.
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Funkenstein, Amos. Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Suggests a commonality between theological and scientific thinking by the seventeenth century.
Gale, Richard M., ed. The Philosophy of Time. Sussex, Eng.: Harvester, 1968. Anthology of historical writings.
Galileo. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, trans. Stillman Drake. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
—————. Dialogue
s Concerning Two New Sciences, trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.
—————. The Sidereal Messenger, trans. Edward Stafford Carlos. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1959.
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