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Further Reading
G. Holton and S.G. Brush, Physics, The Human Adventure, From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001), Chapters 1 and 3.
D.C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
K. Ferguson, Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time (New York: Walker, 1999).
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(2002). Prologue to Part One. In: Understanding Physics. Undergraduate Texts In Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21661-4_1
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