Authors: Carl Sagan
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. New York: Dover, 1980.
Bell, Arthur E.
Christiaan Huygens and the Development of Science in the Seventeenth Century
. New York: Longman’s Green, 1947.
Dobell, Clifford.
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek and His “Little Animals.”
New York: Russell and Russell, 1958.
Duyvendak, J.J.L.
China’s Discovery of Africa
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*Gehrels, T. (ed.).
Jupiter: Studies of the Interior, Atmosphere, Magnetosphere and Satellites
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Haley, K.H.
The Dutch in the Seventeenth Century
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Huizinga, Johan.
Dutch Civilization in the Seventeenth Century
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*Hunten, Donald (ed.).
The Atmosphere of Titan
. NASA SP-340. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.
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The Saturn System
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Huygens, Christiaan.
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*“First Scientific Results from Voyager 1.”
Science
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*“First Scientific Results from Voyager 2.”
Science
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Portrait of Isaac Newton
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Morrison, David and Samz, Jane.
Voyager to Jupiter
. NASA SP-439. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.
Needham, Joseph.
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The Rings of Saturn
. NASA SP-343. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974.
Rimmel, Richard O., Swindell, William and Burgess, Eric.
Pioneer Odyssey
. NASA SP-349. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.
*“Voyager 1 Encounter with Jupiter and Io.”
Nature
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Wilson, Charles H.
The Dutch Republic and the Civilization of the Seventeenth Century
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Zumthor, Paul.
Daily Life in Rembrandt’s Holland
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.
Baker, Howard.
Persephone’s Cave
. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979.
Berendzen, Richard, Hart, Richard and Seeley, Daniel.
Man Discovers the Galaxies
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Farrington, Benjamin.
Greek Science
. London: Penguin, 1953.
Finley, M.I.
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
. London: Chatto, 1980.
Frankfort, H., Frankfort, H.A., Wilson, J.A. and Jacobsen, T.
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Heath, T.
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Lucretius.
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Murray, Gilbert.
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Russell, Bertrand. A
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Sarton, George. A
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Schrödinger, Erwin.
Nature and the Greeks
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Vlastos, Gregory.
Plato’s Universe
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Barnett, Lincoln.
The Universe and Dr. Einstein
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Bernstein, Jeremy.
Einstein
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Borden, M. and Graham, O.L.
Speculations on American History
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Astronautica Acta
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Cooper, Margaret.
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Icarus
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Science
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Gamow, George.
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Hart, Ivor B.
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Hoffman, Banesh.
Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel
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Icarus
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Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
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McPhee, John A.
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Space and Time and Special Relativity
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Eddy, John A.
The New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab
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Gamow, George.
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Kasner, Edward and Newman, James R.
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Murdin, P. and Allen, D.
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Black Holes: The Edge of Space, The End of Time
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Weisskopf, Victor.
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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
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Abbott, E.
Flatland
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Science
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Bok, Bart and Bok, Priscilla.
The Milky Way
, fourth edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Campbell, Joseph.
The Mythic Image
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Ferris, Timothy.
Galaxies
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Ferris, Timothy.
The Red Limit: The Search by Astronomers for the Edge of the Universe
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Gingerich, Owen (ed.).
Cosmology + l
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*Jones, B. “The Origin of Galaxies: A Review of Recent Theoretical Developments and Their Confrontation with Observation.”
Reviews of Modern Physics
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Kaufmann, William J.
Black Holes and Warped Space-Time
. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
Kaufmann, William J.
Galaxies and Quasars
. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
Rothenberg, Jerome (ed.).
Technicians of the Sacred
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Silk, Joseph,
The Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe
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Sproul, Barbara C.
Primal Myths: Creating the World
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Astrophysical Journal
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Weinberg, Steven.
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, Vol. 183, p. 341, 1978.
Human Ancestors
. Readings from Scientific American. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
Koestler, Arthur.
The Act of Creation
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Leakey, Richard E. and Lewin, Roger.
Origins
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*Lehninger, Albert L.
Biochemistry
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*Norris, Kenneth S. (ed.).
Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
*Payne, Roger and McVay, Scott. “Songs of Humpback Whales.”
Science
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Restam, Richard M.
The Brain
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Sagan, Carl.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Sagan, Carl, Drake, F.D., Druyan, A., Ferris, T., Lomberg, J., and Sagan, L.S.
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
. New York: Random House, 1978.
*Stryer, Lubert.
Biochemistry
. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1975.
The Brain
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Behavior of Marine Animals
, Vol. 3:
Cetaceans
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Asimov, Isaac.
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
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Budge, E.A. Wallis.
Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
de Laguna, Frederica.
Under Mount St. Elias: History and Culture of Yacutat Tlingit
. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.
Emmons, G.T.
The Chilkat Blanket
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Goldsmith, D. and Owen, T.
The Search for Life in the Universe
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Klass, Philip.
UFO’s Explained
. New York: Vintage, 1976.
Krause, Aurel.
The Tlingit Indians
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La Pérouse, Jean F. de G., comte de.
Voyage de la Pérouse Autour du Monde
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Mallove, E., Forward, R.L., Paprotny, Z., and Lehmann, J. “Interstellar Travel and Communication: A Bibliography.”
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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*Sagan, Carl (ed.).
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI)
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Sagan, Carl and Page, Thornton (eds.).
UFO’s: A Scientific Debate
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Shklovskii, I.S. and Sagan, Carl.
Intelligent Life in the Universe
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Story, Ron.
The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich von Daniken
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Vaillant, George C.
Aztecs of Mexico
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Drell, Sidney D. and Von Hippel, Frank. “Limited Nuclear War.”
Scientific American
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Dyson, F.
Disturbing the Universe
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Glasstone, Samuel (ed.).
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
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Humboldt, Alexander von.
Cosmos
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Murchee, G.
The Seven Mysteries of Life
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Nathan, Otto and Norden, Heinz (eds.).
Einstein on Peace
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Perrin, Noel.
Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword 1543–1879
. Boston: David Godine, 1979.
Prescott, James W. “Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence.”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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The Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
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Sagan, Carl.
The Cosmic Connection. An Extraterrestrial Perspective
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World Armaments and Disarmament
. SIPRI Yearbook, 1980 and previous years, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. New York: Crane Russak and Company, 1980 and previous years.