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Humboldt, Alexander von. Kosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. London: Bailliere, 1848.
Hurley, Patrick. How Old Is the Earth? Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1959. On geological dating.
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Huxley, Aldous. Literature and Science. New York: Harper, 1963.
Huxley, Julian. Evolution in Action. New York: Harper, 1953.
—————. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. 3 vols. London: Macmillan, 1903.
—————, and H.B.D. Kettlewell. Charles Darwin and His World. New York: Viking, 1965. Popular biography.
Huygens, Christian. The Celestial Worlds Discovered. London: Cass, 1968.
—————. Treatise on Light, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.
Iltis, H. Life of Mendel, trans. Eden and Cedar Paul. New York: Norton, 1932.
Infeld, Leopold. Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist. New York: Doubleday, 1941. Autobiography of an Einstein collaborator.
Inge, William Ralph. God and the Astronomers. New York: Longman’s Green, 1933.
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Jacob, Francoise. The Possible and the Actual. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. Essays on the history and philosophy of science.
Jaki, Stanley L. The Milky Way: An Elusive Road for Science. New York: Science History Publications, 1972.
—————. The Road of Science and the Ways to God. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Jammer, Max. Concepts of Space. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954.
—————. The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. New York: Wiley, 1974.
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—————. Science and Music. New York: Dover, 1968.
Jerison, H.J. Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. New York: Academic Press, 1973.
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John, Laurie, ed. Cosmology Now. New York: Taplinger, 1973.
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Jones, A.H.M. The Later Roman Empire. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 1964.
Jones, Richard Foster. Ancients and Moderns. New York: Dover, 1981. The rise of scientific societies in seventeenth-century England.
Judson, Horace Freeland. The Search for Solutions. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980. Illuminating study of how science is practiced.
Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. Intellectual Mastery of Nature. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Semitechnical history of physics from Ohm to Einstein.
Kahn, C.H. Anaximandcr and the Origins of Greek Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason, trans. J.M.D. Meiklejohn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.
—————. Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, trans. W. Hastie. Glasgow: 1900; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969. Includes text of the Hamburg review of Thomas Wright’s book that launched Kant on his theory of galaxies.
—————. Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, ed. James Ellington. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
—————. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, trans. Paul Carus, revised by James W. Ellington. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1977.
Kaplan, S.A., ed. Extraterrestrial Civilizations. Jerusalem: 1971. Based on a 1969 conference in Moscow.
Kardashev, N.S., ed., Extraterrestrial Civilization, trans. Z. Lerman. Jerusalem: Israel Scientific Translations, 1967.
Kastner, Joseph. A Species of Eternity. New York: Knopf, 1977. Recounts the life and researches of early American naturalists.
Kaufmann, William J. III. Relativity and Cosmology. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Popular introduction.
—————. Stars and Nebulas. San Francisco: Freeman, 1978. Popularized astrophysics survey.
Keller, Alex. The Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His Cradle. London: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Kelves, Daniel J. The Physicists. New York: Random House, 1979. History of the development of modern physics in America.
Kepler, Johann. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Part I. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969.
—————. The Harmonies of the World, trans. Charles Glenn Wallis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
—————. Kepler’s Conversation with Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger, trans. Edward Rosen. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1965.
—————. Mysterium Cosmographicum: The Secret of the Universe, trans. A.M. Duncan. New York: Abaris, 1981.
—————. Somnium: The Dream, trans. Edward Rosen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.
Kerkut, G.A. The Implications of Evolution. Oxford, Eng.: Pergamon, 1960.
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space 1800–1918. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Special relativity’s social context.
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King, N.Q. The Emperor Theodosius and the Establishment of Christianity. Philadelphia: The Westminister Press, 1960. Relates the role of Theodosius in the Christian uprisings of the fourth century.
Kippenhahn, Rudolf. Light from the Depths of Time. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984. Illustrated introduction to cosmology.
—————. 100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars, trans. Jean Steinberg. New York: Basic Books, 1983. Nontechnical introduction to the physics of the stars.
Kirk, G.S., J.E. Raven, and M. Schofield. The Presocratic Philosophers. London: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Includes texts and translations of works by Thales, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, etc.
Kitcher, Philip. Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982. Discussion of creationist misrepresentations of Darwinism.
Kline, Morris. Mathematics: The LOSS of Certainty. London: Oxford University Press, 1980.
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Koenigsberger, Leo. Hermann von Helmholtz, trans. Frances A. Welby. 3 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1906. Spare narrative, with extensive quotations from Helmholtz’s letters and talks.
Koenigswald, G.H.R. The Evolution of Man. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1976.
Koestler, Arthur. The Sleepwalkers. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1959. On the life and work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.
Kokkedee, J.J.J. The Quark Model. New York: Benjamin, 1969.
Kolb, Edward, et al. Inner Space/Outer Space: The Interface Between Cosmology and Particle Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Proceedings of a 1984 Fermilab conference.
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—————. Galileo Studies, trans. John Mepham. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1978. What Galileo knew and when he knew it.
—————. Metaphysics and Measurement: Essays in Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968.
—————. Newtonian Studies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.
—————, and I. Bernard Cohen, eds. Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Krauss, Lawrence M. Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
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—————. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
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Legge, James. The Chinese Classics. 5 vols. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960.
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Harry Frankfurt. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976.
—————. Monadology, trans. Robert Latta. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.
—————. Philosophical Writings, ed. G.H.R. Parkinson, and trans. Mary Morris and G.H.R. Parkinson. London: Dent, 1973.
Lemaître, Georges. The Primeval Atom. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1950. Semi-popular account of what was to become the big bang theory.
Leville, Jacques P., Lawrence R. Sulak, and David G. Unger, eds. The Second Workshop on Grand Unification. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1981.
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Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop. Kant. London: Ernest Benn, 1934.
Livermore, H.V. A New History of Portugal. London: Cambridge University Press, 1966, 1976.
Livingston, Dorothy Michelson. The Master of Light: A Biography of Albert A. Michelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. By Michelson’s daughter.
Lloyd, G.E.R. Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle. New York: Norton, 1970.
—————. Greek Science After Aristotle. New York: Norton, 1973.
Lockyer, J. Norman. The Dawn of Astronomy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1964. Victorian study of the orientation of Egyptian pyramids and temples to the sun and stars.
Longair, M.S. High Energy Astrophysics. London: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Semitechnical.
—————, and J. Einasto. The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe. Boston: Reidel, 1978. Proceedings of a 1977 astronomical symposium.
—————, and J.W. Warner, eds. Scientific Research with the Space Telescope. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1979. Papers presented at a colloquium on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Lorentz, H.A. The Einstein Theory of Relativity. New York: Brentano’s, 1920.
Losee, J. An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Short survey, with an emphasis on the history of the concept of experimentation.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953. Classic study of a durable metaphor.
Lubbock, Constance A. The Herschel Chronicle. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Memoirs by William Herschel’s granddaughter.
Lucretius. De Rerum Natura, trans. Cyril Bailey. London: Oxford University Press, 1947.
—————. On Nature (De Rerum Natura), trans. Russel Geer. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
Lyell, Charles. The Antiquity of Man. London: Murray, 1863.
—————. Principles of Geology, 11th ed. London: Appleton, 1877. The case for uniformitarian geology.
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Maclagan, David. Creation Myths. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979.
Mach, Ernst. The Science of Mechanics, 6th ed. LaSalle, 111.: Open Court, 1960. Influential work in the philosophy of science that helped inspire the young Einstein.
—————. Space and Geometry. LaSalle, 111.: Open Court, 1906.
MacCurdy, Edward, ed. and trans. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Braziller, 1939.
MacKay, D.M. The Clockwork Image. London: Inter-Varsity Press, 1974.
MacKinnon, E.M. Scientific Explanation and Atomic Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
MacPherson, Hector. Makers of Astronomy. London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Colorful, hyperbolic history.
MacPike, Eugene Fairfield. Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.
McCrea, M.J. Rees et al. The Constants of Physics. London: Royal Society, 1983.
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McNeill, William H. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since AD 1000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
—————. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
Mahaffey, J.P. Greek Life and Thought from the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest. London: Macmillan, 1887.
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Malthus, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population, ed. Philip Appleman. New York: Norton, 1976.
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Manuel, Frank E. A Portrait of Isaac Newton. Washington, D.C.: New Republic, 1968. Psychological study.
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Martins, J.P. Olive
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