Bibliography

General Resources

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• Brooke, John Hedley. Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Butterfield, Herb. The Origins of Modern Science. New York: Free Press, 1997.
• McClellan, James E. III, and Harold Dorn. Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

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• Internet History of Science Sourcebook.
• Stanford Encyclopedia entry on scientific progress.
• A shared collection of video clips covering “the constructive interaction of science ethics, philosophy and religion.”

(IMAGE) Cosmological Chart of the Ptolemaic Universe

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• Evans, James. The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Toomer, G. J., ed. Ptolemy’s Almagest. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 

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• Flash animation of Ptolemy’s universe.
• “The Life and Work of Ptolemy.”

(IMAGE) Beatus of Liébana: The Beatus Map

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• Harley, J. B., and David Woodward. The History of Cartography: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
• Talbert, Richard, and Richard Unger, eds. Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods. Brill Academic Publishers, 2008.

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• Beatus collection at the John Rylands University library.
• Website for the Ellen Frank Illumination Arts foundation.
• Moses Maimonides: The Guide for the Perplexed

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• Davidson, Herbert A. Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Fox, Marvin. Interpreting Maimonides. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1990.

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• Maimonides in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Maimonides and Islam.
• Full English text of The Guide for the Perplexed.

Averroës: from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy

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• Fakhry, Majid. Averroës: His Life, Work. Oxford.: Oneworld, 2001.
• Wahbah, Murad, and Mona Abousenna. Averroës and the Enlightenment. Amherst, MA: Prometheus, 1996.

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• A huge site devoted to the study of Islamic philosophy.
• A complete English translation of The Incoherence of the Incoherence.
• An article on Averroës’s impact on the Renaissance.

(IMAGE) Joseph Wright of Derby: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

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• Nicholson, Benedict. Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light. New York: Pantheon, 1968.
• Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

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• The Wright page at the Paris WebMuseum.
• A gallery of paintings by Wright.

Charles Darwin: from Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest

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• Dennett, Daniel C. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
• Quammen, David. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution. New York: Norton, 2006.

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• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online.
• An extensive research site on Darwin.
• A site devoted to the Darwin exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.

Rachel Carson: The Obligation to Endure

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• Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
• Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Holt, 1997.
• Murphy, Priscilla Coit. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

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• “The Story of Silent Spring,” an article presented by the Natural Resource Defense Council.
• A website devoted to the life and legacy of Rachel Carson.

David Suzuki: The Sacred Balance

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• Suzuki, David. The Autobiography. Vancouver: Greystone, 2006.
• Suzuki, David. The Sacred Balance. Seattle, WA: Mountaineer, 1999.

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• http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/series.html Website for the TV series based on The Sacred Balance. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ Website for the David Suzuki Foundation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWtBkZSBpX0&feature=related Interview with David Suzuki about his autobiography.

Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan: The Universe in a Grain of Sand

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• Revel, Jean-François, and Matthieu Ricard. The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life. New York: Schocken, 1998.
• Ricard, Matthieu, and Trinh Xuan Thuan. The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet. New York: Three Rivers, 2001.
• Thuan, Trinh Xuan. The Secret Melody: And Man Created the Universe. West Conshohocken: Templeton Foundation, 2005.

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• Video of Matthieu Ricard’s talk “Habits of Happiness.”
• A streaming video interview with Trinh Xuan Thuan.

(IMAGE) Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 

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• Devorkin, David, and Robert Smith. Hubble: Imaging Space and Time. National Geographic, 2008.
• Kerrod, Robin, Carole Stott, and David Leckrone. Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe. Firefly, 2007.

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• Hubble site at NASA.
• Special site dedicated to Hubble pictures.
• Video broadcast from the Hubble telescope.

Al Gore: The Climate Emergency

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• Burroughs, William. Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Gore, Al.An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It. New York: Rodale, 2006.
• Hulme, Mike. Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inactio,n and Opportunity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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• Gore speech “Averting a Climate Crisis.”
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change Website.
• National Geographic overview of global warming.