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Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900–1944
A Student’s Guide to Entropy
Don Lemons
Sky in a Bottle
Figures of Thought: A Literary Appreciation of Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Thomas K. Simpson
Aristotle’s Physics: A Guided Study
Joe Sachs
Iron Filings or Scribblings
The Mathematical Experience
, Reuben Hersh
Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science
Newton’s Principia: The Central Argument
, William H. Donahue
Thermodynamic Weirdness
Don Lemons
River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster
Jonathan Thompson
Wetlands: An Introduction
An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity
Johannes Kepler’s Optics
The Molecule of More
Daniel Lieberman
Spellbound
Daniel Lieberman
Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth
Laura Dassow Walls
Algebra Survival Guide: A Conversational Guide for the Thoroughly Befuddled
Josh Rappaport
Lobachevski Illuminated
Mathematics for Science and Engineering
Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres
Sagebrush Empire
Jonathan Thompson
Poetry and Mathematics
Oxygen, Acids, and Water: Eight Chapters from the Elementary Treatise on Chemistry
The Aristotelian Tradition of Natural Kinds and Its Demise
Stewart Umphrey
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
Teasel Muir-Harmony
An Introduction to St. Stochastic Processes in Physics
Don Lemons
Abel’s Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability
The General History of Astronomy: Volume 2A
Curtis Wilson
Calculus: The Elements
Through The Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand
Julie Rehmeyer
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Laura Dassow Walls
Rousseau’s Critique of Science: A Commentary on the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia: with On the Motion of Animals
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science
Taking the Lead in Patient Safety
Thomas Krause
Beyond Utility: Liberal Education for a Technological Age
The Ethics of Geometry: A Genealogy of Modernity
David Rapport Lachterman
Apollo to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects
Teasel Muir-Harmony
A Student’s Guide to Dimensional Analysis
Don Lemons
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls
Apollonius of Perga: Conics: Books I-IV
R. Catesby Taliaferro
Selections from Kepler’s Astronomia Nova
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West
Jon Hunner
Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova
Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity: Guide to a First Reading
Rational Mechanics: The Classic Notre Dame Course
R. Catesby Taliaferro
Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
, Eva T.H. Brann
PreAlgebra Blastoff!: Understand Positive and Negative Numbers, Grades 3-8
Josh Rappaport
Music and the Making of Modern Science
Maxwell’s Mathematical Rhetoric: Rethinking the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Thomas K. Simpson
The Doctrine of Signatures: A Defence of Theory in Medicine
Drawing Physics
Don Lemons
Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community
Jon Hunner
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