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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954.

Vlastos, Gregory. Plato’s Universe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975.


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Barnett, Lincoln. The Universe and Dr. Einstein. New York: Sloane, 1956.

Bernstein, Jeremy. Einstein. New York: Viking, 1973.

Borden, M. and Graham, O.L. Speculations on American History. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1977.

*Bussard, R.W. “Galactic Matter and Interstellar Flight.” Astronautica Acta, Vol. 6, p. 179, 1960.

Cooper, Margaret. The Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

*Dole, S.H. “Formation of Planetary Systems by Aggregation: A Computer Simulation.” Icarus, Vol. 13, p. 494, 1970.

Dyson, F.J. “Death of a Project.” [Orion.] Science, Vol. 149, p. 141, 1965.

Gamow, George. Mr. Tompkins in Paperback. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Hart, Ivor B. Mechanical Investigations of Leonardo Da Vinci. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Hoffman, Banesh. Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel. New York: New American Library, 1972.

*Isaacman, R. and Sagan, Carl. “Computer Simulation of Planetary Accretion Dynamics: Sensitivity to Initial Conditions.”Icarus, Vol. 31, p. 510, 1977.

Lieber, Lillian R. and Lieber, Hugh Gray. The Einstein Theory of Relativity. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

MacCurdy, Edward (ed.). Notebooks of Leonardo. Two volumes. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1938.

*Martin, A.R. (ed.). “Project Daedalus: Final Report of the British Interplanetary Society Starship Study.” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Supplement, 1978.

McPhee, John A. The Curve of Binding Energy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.

*Mermin, David. Space and Time and Special Relativity. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Richter, Jean-Paul. Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. New York: Dover, 1970.

Schlipp, Paul A. (ed.). Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, third edition. Two volumes. La Salle, Ill: Open Court, 1970.


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Eddy, John A. The New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab. NASA SP-402. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

*Feynman, R.P., Leighton, R.B. and Sands, M. The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1963.

Gamow, George. One, Two, Three … Infinity. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.

Kasner, Edward and Newman, James R. Mathematics and the Imagination. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

Kaufmann, William J. Stars and Nebulas. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1978.

Maffei, Paolo. Monsters in the Sky. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1980.

Murdin, P. and Allen, D. Catalogue of the Universe. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.

*Shklovskii, I.S. Stars: Their Birth, Life and Death. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1978.

Sullivan, Walter. Black Holes: The Edge of Space, The End of Time. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Weisskopf, Victor. Knowledge and Wonder, second edition. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1979.

Excellent introductory college textbooks on astronomy include:

Abell, George. The Realm of the Universe. Philadelphia: Saunders College, 1980.

Berman, Louis and Evans, J.C. Exploring the Cosmos. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Hartmann, William K. Astronomy: The Cosmic Journey. Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, 1978.

Jastrow, Robert and Thompson, Malcolm H. Astronomy: Fundamentals and Frontiers, third edition. New York: Wiley, 1977.

Pasachoff, Jay M. and Kutner, M.L. University Astronomy. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1978.

Zeilik, Michael. Astronomy: The Evolving Universe. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.


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Abbott, E. Flatland. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963.

*Arp, Halton. “Peculiar Galaxies and Radio Sources.” Science, Vol. 151, p. 1214, 1966.

Bok, Bart and Bok, Priscilla. The Milky Way, fourth edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Campbell, Joseph. The Mythic Image. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

Ferris, Timothy. Galaxies. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980.

Ferris, Timothy. The Red Limit: The Search by Astronomers for the Edge of the Universe. New York: William Morrow, 1977.

Gingerich, Owen (ed.). Cosmology + l. A Scientific American

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