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Required Reading

The Fabric of the Heavens by Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield (University of Chicago Press, 1999) [paperback]. The Origins of Modern Science by Herbert Butterfield (The Free Press, 1965) [paperback]. Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, translated by Stillman Drake (Anchor Books, 1957) [paperback]. Big Bang by Simon Singh (Harper Perennial, 2005) [paperback]. Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) [paperback].

Additional Reading

Archives of the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak (Pantheon Books, 2004) [paperback] -- source book for Greeks to present. The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory, eds. Lisa Dolling, Glenn Statile, & Arthur Gianelli (Princeton University Press, 2003) [paperback] -- sourcebook from the Greeks to the inflationary universe. Cosmology: Historical, Literary, Philosophical, Religious and Scientific Perspectives by Norriss S. Hetherington (ed.) (Garland Publishing, 1993) [paperback]. The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy -- 700 B.C. to Renaissance, by James Evans (Oxford University Press, 1998) [hardback]. The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, 2nd Edition by O. Neugebauer (Dover Classics, 1969) [paperback]. Early Astronomy by Hugh Thurston (Springer Study Edition, 1996) [paperback]. The Beginnings of Western Science: the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 by David C. Lindberg (University of Chicago Press, 1992) [paperback]. The Architecture of Matter by Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield (University of Chicago Press, 1982) [paperback]. The Discovery of Time by Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield (University of Chicago Press, 1977) [paperback]. The First Philosophers. The Presocratics and the Sophists Tr. by Robin Waterfield (Oxford University Press, 2000) [paperback]. The Portable Greek Reader by W. H. Auden (ed.) (Penguin Books, 1977) [paperback]. Before and After Socrates by Francis Conrnford (Cambridge University Press, 1932) [paperback] -- Greek philosophy. Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle by G. E. R. Lloyd (W. W. Norton & Company, 1970) [paperback]. Greek Science After Aristotle by G. E. R. Lloyd (W. W. Norton & Company, 1970) [paperback]. Greek Science in Antiquity by Marshall Clagett (Collier Books, 1955) [paperback]. Greek Science by Benjamin Farrington (Pelican Books, 1953) [paperback]. Cosmology in Antiquity by M. R. Wright (Routledge, 1995) [paperback]. The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 1994) [paperback]. The Portable Medieval Reader by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (eds.) (Penguin Books, 1977) [paperback]. Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds by Pierre Duhem, edited and translated by Roger Ariew (University of Chicago Press, 1985) [paperback]. Physical Science in the Middle Ages by Edward Grant (Cambridge University Press, 1993) [paperback]. The Portable Renaissance Reader by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (eds.) (Penguin Books, 1981) [paperback]. The Construction of Modern Science by Richard S. Westfall (Cambridge University Press, 1977) [paperback]. The Origins of Modern Science by Herbert Butterfield (The Free Press, 1965) [paperback]. The Mechanization of the World Picture by E. J. Dijksterhuis (Princeton University Press, 1986) [paperback]. The Birth of a New Physics by I. Bernard Cohen (W. W. Norton & Company, 1985) [paperback]. The Elizabethan World-Picture by E. M. W. Tillyard (Vintage, 1959) [paperback]. Man and Nature in the Renaissance by Allen G. Debus (Cambridge University Press, 1999) [paperback]. The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler by Owen Gingerich (American Institute of Physics, 1993) [hardback]. Kepler by Max Caspar (Dover Publications, 1993) [paperback]. Kepler's Physical Astronomy by Bruce Stephenson (Princeton University Press, 1987) [paperback]. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, by Albert Einstein (Crown Publishers, 1961) [paperback]. The Realm of the Nebulae, Edwin Hubble, (Yale University Press, 1982) [paperback]. The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg (Basic Books 1993) [paperback]. Darkness at Night, A Riddle of the Universe by Edward Harrison (Harvard University Press, 1987) [paperback]. The Big Bang by Joseph Silk (W. H. Freeman, 2001) [paperback]. A Short History of the Universe by Joseph Silk (W. H. Freeman, 1977) [paperback]. Atom by Lawrence M. Krauss (Back Bay Books, 2001) [paperback]. Quintessence: The Mystery of the Missing Mass by Lawrence M. Krauss (Basic Books, 2001) [paperback]. The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind (Back Bay Books, 2006) [paperback]. The View From the Center of the Universe by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams (Riverhead Books, 2006) [hardback]. Hiding in the Mirror by Lawrence M. Krauss (Viking, 2005) [hardback]. Endless Universe. Beyond the Big Bang by Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok (Doubleday, 2007) [hardback]. Just Six Numbers: The Deep forces that Shape the Universe by Martin Rees (Basic Books, 2001) [paperback]. Fantastic Realities by Frank Wilczek (World Scientific, 2006) [paperback]. Warped Passages by Lisa Randall (Harper Collins, 2005) [hardback]. The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) [hardback] The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics by Julian Barbour (Oxford University Press, 1999) [paperback]. Theory and Reality, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith (University of Chicago Press, 2003) [paperback]. Modern Science and its Philosophy by Philipp Frank (Collier Books, 1961) [paperback]. Science and Method by Henri Poincaré, translated by Francis Maitland (Barnes and Noble Books, 2004) [paperback]. The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper (Routledge, 2002) [paperback]. Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper (Routledge, 2002) [paperback]. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (University of Chicago Press, 1996) [paperback]. Against Method by Paul Feyerabend (Verso, 1993) [paperback].