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Recommended Reading
Books that we enjoyed and found to be very useful in researching this exhibition.
Astronomy
Marcia
Bartusiak, Archives
of the Universe: 100
Discoveries that Transformed
Our Understanding of
the Cosmos (Vintage Books, 2004)
James
Gleick, Isaac
Newton (Vintage Books, 2003)
Richard
Panek, Seeing
and Believing: How the
Telescope Opened Our
Eyes and Minds to the
Heavens (Viking, 1998)
Dava
Sobel, Galileo’s
Daughter (Penguin Books, 2000)
Natural History
Janet
Browne, Charles
Darwin: The Power of
Place (Princeton University Press, 2002)
Janet
Browne, Charles
Darwin: Voyaging (Princeton University Press, 1995)
David
Freedberg, The
Eye of the Lynx: Galileo,
His Friends, and the
Beginnings of Modern
Natural History (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Pliny
the Elder, Natural
History: A Selection (Penguin Classics, 1991)
Kim
Todd, Chrysalis:
Maria Sibylla Merian
and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (Harvest Books, 2007)
Medicine
Frank
J. Anderson, An
Illustrated History of
the Herbals (Columbia University Press, 1977)
Robert
Herrlinger, History
of Medical Illustration:
From Antiquity to 1600 (Editions Medicina Rara, 1970)
Roy
Porter, ed., The
Cambridge Illustrated
History of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Roy
Porter, The
Greatest Benefit to Mankind:
A Medical History of
Humanity (W. W. Norton & Co., 1997)
Light
Walter
Isaacson, Einstein:
His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
David
C. Lindberg, Theories
of Vision from Al-Kindi
to Kepler (University of Chicago Press, 1976)
Mark
Pendergrast, Mirror,
Mirror: A History of
the Human Love Affair
with Reflection (Basic Books, 2003)
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