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Astronomy Biography
Cook, Alan. Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas. 1998. $35. Davidson, Keay. Carl Sagan: A Life. New York: Wiley, 1999. 576 p. $30. Drake, Stillman. Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography. Chicago, IL: New York: Dover, 1995. 536 p. $13.45. Dreyer, John Louis Emil. A Short Account of Sir William Herschel's Life and Work. 1912. Dreyer, John Louis Emil. Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Dover, 1963. $?. Ferguson, Kitty. Stephen Hawking. New York: Bantam, 1992. 192 p. $5.39. Friis. Seventy-Five Years in an Exciting World. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Press, 1971. Autobiography by Karl Jansky's boss at Bell Labs. Gade, John Allyne. The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947. 209 p. $?. Hanbury Brown, Robert. Boffin: A Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar and Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics. Adam Hilger, 1991. $37. Hoskin, Michael A. William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens. London: Oldbourne, 1963.
Hoyt, William Graves. Lowell and Mars. 1996. 392 p. $24.95. Kolb, Rocky. Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 352 p. $11.20. Kopal, Zdenek. Of Stars and Men: Reminiscences of an Astronomer. Bristol, England: Hilger, 1986. 486 p. $74. Levy, David. Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of the Planet Pluto. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1991. $16.16. Levy, David H. The Man Who Sold the Milky Way: A Biography of Bart Bok. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1993. 246 p. $13.45. Lowell, William. The Explorers of Mars Hill: A Centennial History of Lowell Observatory, 1894-1994. Lowell Observatory, 1994. 289 p. $30. Osterbrock, Donald E. Pauper and Prince: Ritchey, Hale, and Big American Telescopes. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1993. 346 p. $45. Redondi, Pietro. Galileo Heretic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. 356 p. Out of print. $16.16.
Segre, Michael. In the Wake of Galileo. New Brunswick, NJ, 1992. 192 p. $14. Sharov, Alexander S. and Novikov, Igor D. Edwin Hubble: The Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 187 p. Allegedly full of factual errors. $36.95. Sharratt, Michael. Galileo: Decisive Innovator. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 247 p. $18.95. Sheehan, William. The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 429 p. $49.95. Sidgwick, John Benson. William Herschel: Explorer of the Heavens. London: Faber and Faber, 1953. Sime, J. William Herschel and His Work. 1900.
Souden, David. Stonehenge Revealed. 1997. $29.95.
Thoren, Victor E. The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991. $69.95. White, Michael and Gribbin, John. Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science. New York: Dutton, 1992. 304 p. $11.65. Willard, Berton C. Russell W. Porter: Arctic Explorer, Artist, Telescope Maker. Sky Publishing Corporation, 1976. $14.95. Wright, Helen. Explorer of the Universe: A Biography of George Ellery Hale. 1994. $23.96. $34.95. Wright, Helen. Sweeper in the Sky: the Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America. Amer. Inst. Phys., 1994. $16.95.
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