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    Gravity and the Quantum: Pedagogical Essays on Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Quantum Gravity.Jasjeet Singh Bagla & Sunu Engineer (eds.) - 2017 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book provides a compilation of in-depth articles and reviews on key topics within gravitation, cosmology and related issues. It is a celebratory volume dedicated to Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan ("Paddy"), the renowned relativist and cosmologist from IUCAA, India, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The authors, many of them leaders of their fields, are all colleagues, collaborators and former students of Paddy, who have worked with him over a research career spanning more than four decades. Paddy is a scientist (...)
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    General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics: Perspectives 100 years after Einstein's stay in Prague.Jiří Bičák & Tomáš Ledvinka (eds.) - 2014 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    The articles included in this Volume represent a broad and highly qualified view on the present state of general relativity, quantum gravity, and their cosmological and astrophysical implications. As such, it may serve as a valuable source of knowledge and inspiration for experts in these fields, as well as an advanced source of information for young researchers. The occasion to gather together so many leading experts in the field was to celebrate the centenary of Einstein's stay in Prague in 1911-1912. (...)
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    Falsification and Demarcation in Astronomy and Cosmology.Benjamin Sovacool - 2005 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 25 (1):53-62.
    This work inaugurates a critical inquiry into whether the ideas of Karl Popper, a philosopher of science, are used by astronomers and astrophysicists, a practicing community of scientists. It examines four basic components of Karl Popper's philosophy— falsification, prohibition, simplicity, and risk taking— and the extent that these themes become integrated into recent scientific literature on astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and stellar evolutionary theory. It concludes that the philosophy of science is highly relevant to the practice of astronomy, and that (...)
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    Engaging the Cosmos: Astronomy, Philosophy, and Faith.Neville Brown - 2006 - Sussex Academic Press.
    Written by an experienced author with a strong background in both History and Earth Sciences, this text explores the philosophic implications of the dramatic ...
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    François Arago: A 19th Century French Humanist and Pioneer in Astrophysics.James Lequeux - 2015 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    François Arago, the first to show in 1810 that the surface of the Sun and stars is made of incandescent gas and not solid or liquid, was a prominent physicist of the 19th century. He used his considerable influence to help Fresnel, Ampere and others develop their ideas and make themselves known. This book covers his personal contributions to physics, astronomy, geodesy and oceanography, which are far from negligible, but insufficiently known. Arago was also an important and influential political man (...)
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    An Astronomical Road to General Relativity: The Continuity between Classical and Relativistic Cosmology in the Work of Karl Schwarzschild.Matthias Schemmel - 2005 - Science in Context 18 (3):451-478.
    In this article it is argued that a continuity exists between Karl Schwarzschild's work on foundational problems on the borderline of physics and astronomy and his later occupation with general relativity. Based on an analysis of Schwarzschild's published works as well as formerly neglected unpublished notes it is shown that, long before the rise of general relativity, Schwarzschild was concerned with problems that later became associated with that theory. In particular he considered non-Euclidean cosmologies, linked the phenomena of gravitation and (...)
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    Old Wisdom and New Horizon.Manoj Kumar Pal - 2008 - Jointly Published by Csc and Viva Books for the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture.
    This book by an internationally reputed Indian scientist traces the developments of Science, Religion and Philosophy in human civilization through the ages. The common underlying bond-more specifically, a linkage of philosophy with both science and religion-has been examined incisively. All the three sub-areas of human culture have been presented from a holistic point of view, and at the same time, stressing some of their irreconcilable basic differences in scope and outlook. Meant primarily for general readers, the book achieves a fine (...)
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    The Birth of Modern Astronomy.Harm J. Habing - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science. It begins with an introduction to the state of astronomy in 1945 before recounting how in the following years, initial observations were made in hitherto unexplored ranges of wavelengths, such as X-radiation, infrared radiation and radio waves. These led to the serendipitous discovery of more than a dozen new phenomena, including quasars and neutron stars, that each triggered (...)
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    Mary Somerville and the World of Science.Allan Chapman - 2014 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with a scientific brother or father. She was active in astronomy, one of the most demanding areas of science of the day, and flourished in the unique British tradition of Grand Amateurs, who paid their own way and were not affiliated with any academic institution. Mary Somerville was to science what Jane (...)
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  10. Too early? On the apparent conflict of astrobiology and cosmology.Milan M. Ćirković - 2006 - Biology and Philosophy 21 (3):369-379.
    An interesting consequence of the modern cosmological paradigm is the spatial infinity of the universe. When coupled with naturalistic understanding of the origin of life and intelligence, which follows the basic tenets of astrobiology, and with some fairly incontroversial assumptions in the theory of observation selection effects, this infinity leads, as Ken Olum has recently shown, to a paradoxical conclusion. Olum's paradox is related, to the famous Fermi's paradox in astrobiology and “SETI” studies. We, hereby, present an evolutionary argument countering (...)
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    Laboratory Astrophysics: Lessons for Epistemology of Astrophysics.Nora Mills Boyd - 2023 - In Nora Mills Boyd, Siska De Baerdemaeker, Kevin Heng & Vera Matarese (eds.), Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There. Springer Verlag. pp. 2147483647-2147483647.
    Astrophysics is often cast as an observational science, devoid of traditional experiments, along with astronomy and cosmology. Yet, a thriving field of experimental research exists called laboratory astrophysics. How should we make sense of this apparent tension? I argue that approaching the epistemology of astrophysics by attending to the production of empirical data and the aims of the research better illuminates both the successes and challenges of empirical research in astrophysics than evaluating the epistemology of (...) according to the presence or absence of experiments. (shrink)
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    (1 other version)1st Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics.Piero Nicolini, Matthias Kaminski, Jonas Mureika & Marcus Bleicher (eds.) - 2015 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    These proceedings collect the selected contributions of participants of the First Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics, held in Frankfurt, Germany to celebrate the 140th anniversary of Schwarzschild's birth. They are grouped into 4 main themes: I. The Life and Work of Karl Schwarzschild; II. Black Holes in Classical General Relativity, Numerical Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Alternative Theories of Gravity; III. Black Holes in Quantum Gravity and String Theory; IV. Other Topics in Contemporary Gravitation. Inspired by the foundational principle (...)
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    Relativity Without Spacetime.Joseph K. Cosgrove - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    In 1908, three years after Einstein first published his special theory of relativity, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski introduced his four-dimensional “spacetime” interpretation of the theory. Einstein initially dismissed Minkowski’s theory, remarking that “since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself anymore.” Yet Minkowski’s theory soon found wide acceptance among physicists, including eventually Einstein himself, whose conversion to Minkowski’s way of thinking was engendered by the realization that he could profitably employ it for the (...)
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    From Stars to States: A Manifest for Science in Society.Thierry J.-L. Courvoisier - 2017 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    The aim of this essay is to understand the relationship between knowledge and society and to reflect on the links between science and political decision making. The text evolved from a number of reflections the author made while president of the European Astronomical Society, president of the Swiss Academy of Sciences and vice-president of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC). The book starts by using astronomy as a showcase for what science brings to society in terms of intellectual enrichment, (...)
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    What If We Don't Die?: The Morality of Immortality.Peter Hulsroj - 2015 - Cham: Imprint: Copernicus.
    This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality, and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable. The book looks at what makes immortality appear so attractive, and at the possibility that we would be better served with longer lives and the freedom to terminate our lives at the time when life has given us all the joy, inspiration and personal development it possibly could. What If We Don't Die? - Presents major (...)
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    Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history.Helge Kragh - forthcoming - Annals of Science.
    So-called antimatter in the form of elementary particles such as positive electrons (antielectrons alias positrons) and negative protons (antiprotons) has for long been investigated by physicists. However, atoms or molecules of this exotic kind are conspicuously absent from nature. Since antimatter is believed to be symmetric with ordinary matter, the flagrant asymmetry constitutes a problem that still worries physicists and cosmologists. As first suggested by Paul Dirac in 1933, in distant parts of the universe there might be entire stars and (...)
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  17. The Light of the Dark: Dark Matter, Astronomy, and Knowing the Unobservable.Eugene Vaynberg - 2024 - Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania
    Dark matter in astrophysics offers a rare treat for philosophers of science. When they look at the contemporary science of dark matter, they see reports of a widely accepted theoretical posit indispensable to our best theories and models but without an accepted experimental confirmation of its existence. Nearly all astrophysicists and cosmologists believe that dark matter exists and makes up approximately a quarter of the mass-energy content of the universe. However, they seem to know almost nothing about its nature, (...)
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  18. The problem of astronomy and cosmology and the Holy Scriptures after Copernicus: Christoph Rothmann and the''theory of accomodation'', including an edition of his' Observationum stellarum fixarum liber primus', chapter 23-Italian, Latin.M. A. Granada - 1996 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 51 (4):789-828.
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    Aims and Scopes of the Special Issue: Foundations of Astrophysics and Cosmology.Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci, Tomislav Prokopec & Salvatore Capozziello - 2017 - Foundations of Physics 47 (6):709-710.
  20. Book Reviews-Astronomy and Cosmology, Space and Time-Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology.Sara Schechner Genuth & M. J. Duck - 1999 - Annals of Science 56 (2):216-216.
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    Malcolm S. Longair.The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology. xvi + 545 pp., figs., indexes. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $60. [REVIEW]David Devorkin - 2007 - Isis 98 (3):661-662.
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    Review of Owen Gingerich: Astrophysics and twentieth-century astronomy to 1950, The General History of Astronomy, Vol. 4A[REVIEW]Owen Gingerich - 1986 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4):510-513.
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  23. Reviews: Astronomy and Cosmology, Space and Time-Astronomy Through the Ages: The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universe. [REVIEW]Robert Wilson & H. A. L. Dawes - 1998 - Annals of Science 55 (4):440-440.
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    Astrophysics and creation: Perceiving the universe through science and participation.Arnold O. Benz - 2017 - Zygon 52 (1):186-195.
    I explore how the notion of divine creation could be made understandable in a worldview dominated by empirical science. The crucial question concerns the empirical basis of belief in creation. Astronomical observations have changed our worldview in an exemplary manner. I show by an example from imaginative literature that human beings can perceive stars by means other than astronomical observation. This alternative mode may be described as “participatory perception,” in which a human experiences the world not by objectifying separation as (...)
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    Astrophysics and creation: perceiving the universe through science and participation.Arnold Benz - 2017 - New York: A Crossroad Book, The Crossroad Publishing Company.
    While written by a prominent and active scientist, this book is based on personal experience and biblical theology. It doesn't try to derive God s existence from science and it's critical of scientific inferences on the notion of God (Natural Theology). Cosmic fine-tuning and other coincidences are no proof of God, but are amazing, astounding and will never be fully explained. Amazement is the appropriate emotional perception of reality. The objective world is not a matter of course and may well (...)
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  26. Review of Owen Gingerich: Astrophysics and twentieth-century astronomy to 1950, The General History of Astronomy, Vol. 4A[REVIEW]Derek J. Raine - 1986 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4):510-513.
  27. Laws and Cosmology.J. J. C. Smart - 1999 - In Howard Sankey (ed.), Causation and Laws of Nature. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 161--169.
    The main purpose of this paper is to seek a reconciliation between two apparently conflicting views of mine. I have argued (for example, Smart, 1963) for realism about theoretical entities, for example electrons, protons, photons, possibly space-time points, perhaps the ‘Y’-wave of Schrödinger’s equation and so on. Quine has also plausibly argued that we should believe in mathematical entities, since in physics we quantify over them no less than over electrons and protons. I except cases in which in physics the (...)
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  28. The First Three Minutes: Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics.Siyu Yao - forthcoming - In Aviezer Tucker & David Černín (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Big History: The Philosophy of the Historical Sciences. Bloomsbury Academic.
    At the commencement of the universe and in the deep past of the observable realm, the first three minutes is a topic both scientifically challenging and philosophically intriguing. While the universe is believed to have undergone drastic changes over this short period, scientists seem to have essential difficulties with gaining observational evidence and conceiving physics in high-energy conditions. This essay delves into philosophical issues concerning evidence, inference, methodology, and the standard for legitimate scientific knowledge about the early universe. Focusing on (...)
     
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    Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance.John M. Steele - 2009 - Annals of Science 66 (2):297-299.
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    Bruce S. Eastwood. Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance. xxii + 452 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2007. €99. [REVIEW]Marco Zuccato - 2008 - Isis 99 (4):823-824.
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    Astronomy in the Indus Valley Civilization: A Survey of the Problems and Possibilities of the Ancient Indian Astronomy and Cosmology in the Light of Indus Script Decipherment by the Finnish Scholars.Syed Mohammad Ashfaque - 1977 - Centaurus 21 (2):149-193.
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    Feature ReviewsThe Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. John North.N. Swerdlow - 1997 - Isis 88 (2):316-317.
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    The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama (review).Paul O. Ingram - 2005 - Buddhist-Christian Studies 25 (1):180-182.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai LamaPaul O. IngramThe New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama. By Arthur Zajonic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 245 pp.Over the years there have occurred several "Life and Mind Conferences" that seek to explore the intersection between the natural sciences and Buddhism, particularly, but not limited to, Tibetan Buddhist tradition. As far as I know, this series (...)
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    Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance. [REVIEW]Bruce Eastwood - 2008 - Speculum 83 (3):692-694.
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    Astrophysics, Cosmology, and the Interior Space of Indian Myths and Temples.J. M. Malville - 1991 - In Kapila Vatsyayan (ed.), Concepts of space, ancient and modern. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. pp. 123--44.
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    Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582.Joseph Caruana - forthcoming - Annals of Science.
    Antonino Saliba, a sixteenth century cartographer hailing from the Maltese island of Gozo, published a map in 1582 espousing his cosmology. Its popularity at the time is attested via the multiple editions and copies that were produced in Europe. Numerous sky phenomena, amongst them comets, are portrayed in the map. This study presents a detailed analysis of Saliba's treatment of these phenomena, following the first comprehensive translation of the map's text to English. It elucidates the sources that Saliba used, clarifying (...)
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    Gravitational coalescence paradox and cosmogenetic causality in quantum astrophysical cosmology.Raphael Neelamkavil - 2018 - New York: Peter Lang.
    All quantum-physical and cosmological causal/non-causal dilemmas have superluminally causal solutions if existents are processual by extension-change impact-transfer. Fixing the extent of applicability of mathematics to physics demonstrates Universal Causality for cosmogenetic theories. Whether the cosmos is of finite or infinite content, the Gravitational Coalescence Paradox in cosmogenetic theories yields a philosophical cosmology of infinite-eternal continuous creation: specifically, the Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology.
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    Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance. [REVIEW]Elly Dekker - 2008 - Early Science and Medicine 13 (5):514-515.
  39. (1 other version)Astronomy, cosmology, and the limit of empiricism in Gassendi's thought.Kuni Sakamoto - 2018 - In Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber & Carla Rita Palmerino (eds.), Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge.
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    John North. The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology. London: Fontana, 1994. Pp. xxvii + 697. ISBN 0-00-686177-6. £12.99. [REVIEW]Mari Williams - 1995 - British Journal for the History of Science 28 (2):233-234.
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    Cosmology, Astronomy, and Philosophy around 1800: Schelling, Hegel, Herder.Laura Follesa - 2022 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 12 (1):242-260.
    This article focuses on debates on philosophical knowledge, mathematics, and the empirical sciences by analyzing the positions on cosmological and astronomical knowledge, around 1800, of three German authors: Herder, Schelling, and Hegel. I show the mutual interdependence of Schelling’s and Hegel’s Naturphilosophie and Herder’s Ideen, and I then demonstrate that the latter’s position during the last years of his life was a reaction to Schelling’s and Hegel’s speculative philosophy. While Herder seems to ignore the works of the Naturphilosophen in his (...)
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    John North. Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology. xxv + 876 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $95. [REVIEW]Michael Hoskin - 2009 - Isis 100 (2):386-386.
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    The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science.Kendrick Oliver - 2024 - History of Science 62 (1):144-171.
    This article explores the relation between two different modes of cosmology: the social and the scientific. Over the twentieth century, scientific understandings of the dimensions and operations of the physical universe changed dramatically, significantly prompted by astronomical and astrophysical research undertaken at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. Could those understandings be readily translated into social theory? Studies across a range of disciplines have intimated that the scientific cosmos might be less essential to the worlds of meaning and belonging (...)
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    Relativity and Gravitation: 100 Years after Einstein in Prague.Jiří Bičák & Tomáš Ledvinka (eds.) - 2014 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    In early April 1911 Albert Einstein arrived in Prague to become full professor of theoretical physics at the German part of Charles University. It was there, for the first time, that he concentrated primarily on the problem of gravitation. Before he left Prague in July 1912 he had submitted the paper "Relativität und Gravitation: Erwiderung auf eine Bemerkung von M. Abraham" in which he remarkably anticipated what a future theory of gravity should look like. At the occasion of the Einstein-in-Prague (...)
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  45. Book Reviews-Astronomy, Cosmology, Space and Time-Astronomy Before the Telescope.C. Walker & J. A. Bennett - 1999 - Annals of Science 56 (1):106-106.
     
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    Astronomy on Trial: A Devastating and Complete Repudiation of the Big Bang Fiasco.Roy C. Martin - 1999 - Upa.
    Astronomy on Trial systematically and convincingly argues against every aspect of the theory behind the idea of the "Big Bang." Using a readable style that incorporates the laws of physics, Roy C. Martin exposes the impossibilities that have been so commonly manipulated to support the Big Bang theory. He carefully explains the absurdities that have come to represent modern day cosmology and high-energy physics that have arisen from the group-think phenomenon. Martin reveals this group-think as the tendency of scientists to (...)
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    Cosmology and Astrophysics: Essays in Honor of Thomas Gold by Yervant Terzian; Elizabeth Bilson. [REVIEW]Stephen Brush - 1985 - Isis 76:418-418.
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    A Source Book In Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975 ed. by Kenneth R. Lang and Owen Gingerich.Robert W. Smith - 1981 - History of Science 19:3.
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    Essay Review: Modern Astronomy: A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900–1975.Robert W. Smith - 1981 - History of Science 19 (4):306-307.
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    Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth M. Bilson, eds., Cosmology and Astrophysics.Jacques Merleau Ponty - 1986 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 39 (3):286-287.
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