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Longitude
: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem
of His Time
Dava Sobel / Hardcover / Published 1995
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Crystal
Fire : The Birth of the Information Age
Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Fire Within the Eye : A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of
Light David Park / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Ascent of Science
Brian L. Silver / Hardcover / Published 1998
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Five
Equations That Changed the World : The Power and Poetry of
Mathematics Michael Guillen / Paperback / Published 1996
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Life
: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Richard Fortey / Hardcover / Published 1998
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The
Pinball Effect : How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible
and Other Journeys Through Knowledge
James Burke, Geoffrey Kloske (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997
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A
Science Odyssey : 100 Years of Discovery (Pbs Series)
Charles Flowers / Hardcover / Published 1998
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Beyond
Engineering : How Society Shapes Technology (Sloan Technology Series)
Robert Pool / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Soft Edge : A Natural History and Future of the Information
Revolution
Paul Levinson / Hardcover / Published 1997
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Korolev
: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the
Moon
James Harford / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Axemaker's Gift : Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and
Culture James Burke, et al / Paperback / Published 1997
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The
Day the Universe Changed
Burke / Paperback / Published 1995
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Galileo
and the Dolphins : Amazing but True Stories from Science
Adrian Berry, Jovan Djordjevic (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Scientific Revolution
Steven Shapin / Hardcover / Published 1996
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Image
and Logic : A Material Culture of Microphysics
Peter Galison / Paperback / Published 1997
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Asimov's
Chronology of Science & Discovery
Isaac Asimov / Hardcover / Published 1994
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Mr.
Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Lawrence Weschler / Paperback / Published 1996
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Old
Wine New Flasks : Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition
Roald Hoffmann, Shira Leibowitz Schmidt / Hardcover / Published 1997
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Yellow
Fever, Black Goddess : The Coevolution of People and Plagues
Christopher Wills / Paperback / Published 1997
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One
River : Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis / Hardcover / Published 1996
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Frontiers
of Illusion : Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress
Daniel Sarewitz / Paperback / Published 1996
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The
Science Class You Wish You Had : The Seven Greatest Scientific Discoveries
in History and the People Who Made Them
David Eliot Brody, Arnold R. Brody / Paperback / Published 1997
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They
All Laughed : From Light Bulbs to Lasers : The Fascinating Stories Behind
the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives
Ira Flatow / Paperback / Published 1993
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The
Heavens and the Earth : A Political History of the Space Age
Walter A. McDougall / Paperback / Published 1997
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Sundials
: History, Theory, and Practice
Rene R. J. Rohr / Paperback / Published 1996
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Eyewitness
to Science
John Carey (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997
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Disenchanted
Night : The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Angela Davies (Translator) / Paperback / Published
1995
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Stairways
to the Stars : Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
Anthony F. Aveni / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Time Before History : 5 Million Years of Human Impact
Colin Tudge / Paperback / Published 1997
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Hidden
Histories of Science
Robert B. Silvers (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996
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Einstein,
History, and Other Passions : The Rebellion Against Science at the End of
the Twentieth Century
Gerald Holton / Paperback / Published 1996
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In
Search of Planet Vulcan : The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe
Richard Baum, William Sheehan / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Ovary of Eve : Egg and Sperm and Preformation
Clara Pinto-Correia, et al / Hardcover / Published 1997
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Serendipity
: Accidental Discoveries in Science (Wiley Science Edition)
Royston M. Roberts / Paperback / Published 1989
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Dinosaur
in a Haystack : Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould / Hardcover / Published 1996
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Science
and the Secrets of Nature : Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern
Culture
William Eamon / Paperback / Published 1996
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The
Innovators : The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern (Wiley Popular
Science)
David P. Billington / Paperback / Published 1996
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Empire
of Light : A History of Discovery in Science and Art
Sidney Perkowitz / Hardcover / Published 1996
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Discoveries
and Opinions of Galileo : Including the Starry Messenger (1610 Letter to
the Grand Duchess Christina)
Galileo Galilei, Stillman Drake (Translator) / Paperback / Published
1997
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Matters
of Life and Death : Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer,
and the Prospects for the Human Race
John Cairns / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The
Scientific 100 : A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and
Present
John G. Simmons / Hardcover / Published 1996
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The
Beginnings of Western Science : The European Scientific Tradition in
Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D.
1450
David C. Lindberg / Paperback / Published 1992
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The
Biological Universe : The Twentieth-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
and the Limits of Science
Steven J. Dick / Hardcover / Published 1996
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The
Timetables of Science : A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events
in the History of Science
Alexander Hellemans, et al / Paperback / Published 1991
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Science electronic books
http://www.access.digex.net/~jfptak/etext/index.html
Subjects: Classics in the History
of Science: Decartes, Aristotle, Poincare,...
Languages: English
Secular Web Library
http://www.infidels.org/library/
Subjects: Theism, Secularism,
Evolution Languages: English
University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
Languages:
English, French, German, Japanese, Italian
Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ "The goal of the Victorian
Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of literary
works by British women writers of the late 19th century."
Subjects: various
Languages: English
Virginia Tech Gopher
gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/10/33 Public domain texts.
Subjects: various
Languages: English
Virtual Computer Library
http://www.utexas.edu/computer/vcl/ "VCL is a collection of
links to information about computers and computing."
Subjects: Computers
Languages: English
Wiretap Online Library
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/
Languages: English
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