Reading List for Galileo Unbound

Chapter 2. A New Scientist

Drake, S. (1989). History of free fall : Aristotle to Galileo. Toronto, Toront : Wall & Thompson. Amazon Link

Gingerich, O. (1993). The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler. New York, American Institute of Physics. Amazon Link

Heilbron, J. (2010). Galileo. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Amazon Link

Lattis, J. M. (2010). Between Copernicus and Galileo : Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology. Chicago, US, University of Chicago Press. Amazon Link

Naess, A. (2005). Galileo Galilei: When the World Stood Still, Springer. Amazon Link

Pesic, P. (2014). Music and the Making of Modern Science, MIT Press. Amazon Link

Sobel, D. (1999). Galileo's daughter : a historical memoir of science, faith, and love. New York :, Walker & Co. Amazon Link

Chapter 3. Galileo's Trajectory

Clagett, M. (1959). The science of mechanics in the Middle Ages. Madison :, University of Wisconsin Press. Amazon Link

Clagett, Marshall (1968), Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of Qualities and Motions; a treatise on the uniformity and difformity of intensities known as Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum, Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press Amazon Link

Devreese, J. T. en Vanden Berghe, G. (2007). Magic is no magic. The wonderful World of Simon Stevin 1548–1620. Southampton: WITpress. Amazon Link Publisher Link

Drake, S. (1989). History of free fall : Aristotle to Galileo with an epilogue on [pi] in the sky. Toronto, Toronto : Wall & Thompson. Amazon Link

Freely, J. (2014). Before Galileo : the birth of modern science in medieval Europe. London :, Duckworth. Amazon Link

Klima, Gyula (2008). John Buridan. New York: Oxford University Press. Google Books

Naess, A. (2005). Galileo Galilei: When the World Stood Still, Springer. Amazon Link

Sobel, D. (1999). Galileo's daughter : A historical memoir of science, faith, and love. New York :, Walker & Co. Amazon Link

Chapter 4. On the Shoulders of Giants

Boudri, J. C. (2002). What was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of Force between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Labrange vol. 224. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Google Books

Coopersmith, J. (2010). Energy, the Subtle Concept: The Discovery of Feynman's Blocks from Leibniz to Einstein: Oxford. Amazon Link Publisher Link

Crowe, M. J. (2007). Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein: Green Lion Press. Amazon Link

Terrall, M. (2002). The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment: Chicago. Amazon Link Publisher Link

Suisky, D. (2009). Euler as Physicist: Springer. Amazon Link

Chapter 5. Geometry on my Mind

Boyer, C. B. (1985). A History of Mathematics, Princeton University Press. Amazon Link

Crowe, M. J. (1967). A history of vector analysis : the evolution of the idea of a vectorial system. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Amazon Link

Dauben, J. W. (1979) Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite. Princeton University Press. Amazon Link Publisher Link

Edgar, G. A. (2004). Classics on fractals. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press. Amazon Link

Chapter 6. The Tangled Tale of Phase Space

Barrow-Green, J. (1997). Poincaré and the three body problem, London Mathematical Society. Amazon Link

Brush, S. G. (1975). The kind of motion we call heat : a history of the kinetic theory of gases in the 19th century. Amsterdam, Elsevier. AbeBooks Link

Brush, S. (2003). The Kinetic Theory of Gases. London, Imperial College Press. Publisher Link

Cercignani, C. (1998). Ludwig Boltzmann: The man who trusted atoms. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Amazon Link

Lindley, D. (2001). Boltzmann's atom: The great debate that launched a revolution in physics. New York, Free Press. Amazon Link

Lutzen, J. (1990). Joseph Liouville 1809-1882: Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Springer-Verlag. Amazon Link

Poincaré, H. and D. L. Goroff (1993). New methods of celestial mechanics ... Edited and introduced by Daniel L. Goroff. New York, American Institute of Physics. Amazon Link

Chapter 7. The Lens of Gravity

Eddington, A. S. (1927). Stars and Atoms. Clarendon Press. LCCN 27015694. AbeBooks Link

A. Pais, Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein: Osford, 2005. Amazon Link

Chapter 8. On the Quantum Footpath

Gutzwiller, M. (1990). Chaos in classical and quantum mechanics (Interdisciplinary applied mathematics ; v. 1). New York: Springer-Verlag. Amazon Link

v. d. Waerden, B. L. (1968). Sources of quantum mechanics. New York: Dover Publications. Publisher Link

D'Abro, A. (1951) Rise of the new physics: its mathematical and physical theories (formerly titled "Decline of mechanism”): New York: Dover. Amazon Link

Jammer, M. (1989). The conceptual development of quantum mechanics. Los Angeles, Calif.] : [Woodbury, N.Y.]: Los Angeles, Calif.: Tomash Publishers Woodbury, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics. AbeBooks Link

Baggott, J. E. (2011). The quantum story: a history in 40 moments. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. Amazon Link Publisher Link

Gamow, G. (1966). Thirty years that shook physics : the story of quantum theory. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books. AbeBooks Link

Sanz, A. S. (2012). A trajectory description of quantum processes. Heidelberg: Springer. Amazon Link

Segrè, E. (1980). From x-rays to quarks: Modern physicists and their discoveries. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Amazon Link

Brown, Laurie M. (2005). Feynman's Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory. River Edge, NJ, USA: World Scientific Publishing Co. Amazon Link

Cassidy, David C. (2010). Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb. New York, NY, USA: Bellevue Literary Press. Amazon Link

Newton, Roger G. (2009). How Physics Confronts Reality: Einstein Was Correct, but Bohr Won the Game. Singapore, SGP: World Scientific Publishing Co. Amazon Link

Chapter 9. From Butterflies to Hurricanes

Abraham, R. and Y. Ueda (2000). The chaos avant-garde: Memories of the early days of chaos theory. World Scientific. Google Books

A.A. Andronov, A. A. Vitt and S.E. Khaikinn (1937). Theory of Oscillators (tr. F. Immerzi from the Russian, first edition Moscow, 1937). Pergamon, London, UK, 1966. AbeBooks Link

V.I. Arnold. Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics. Springer, New York, 1997. AbeBooks Link

G.D. Birkhoff. Dynamical Systems (reprinted with an introduction by J. Moser and a preface by M. Morse, 1966). American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1927. Amazon Link

Dumas, H. S. (2014). The KAM Story: A friendly introduction to the content, history and significance of Classical Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Theory, World Scientific. Amazon Link

Diacu, F. and P. Holmes (1996). Celestial encounters: The origins of chaos and stability. Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ. Press. Amazon Link

Gleick, J. (1987). Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking. Amazon Link

Goldstine, Herman H. (1972). The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton University press. Amazon Link

M. Gutzwiller, Moon-Earth-Sun: The oldest three-body problem, Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 70, No. 2, (April 1998)

S. Lefschetz. Differential Equations: Geometric Theory. Interscience Publishers, New York, 1957. Google Books

Nolte, D. D. (2015). Introduction to modern dynamics : chaos, networks, space and time. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Amazon Link Publisher Link

Ruelle, D. (1991). Chance and Chaos: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Amazon Link

S. Smale. The Mathematics of Time. Springer, New York, 1980. Amazon Link

Chapter 10. Darwin in the Clockworks

Bacaer, N. (2011). A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics, Springer. Amazon Link

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species, edited by Gillian Beer, OUP Oxford, 2007. Amazon Link

Ekelund, R. B. and R. F. Hebert (2014). A History of Economic Theory and Method. Long Grove, IL, Waveland Press. Amazon Link

Nowak, M. A. (2006). Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. Amazon Link

Provine, William B. Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Amazon Link

Sandmo, Agnar (2011). Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought, Princeton University Press: Princeton Amazon Link

Straffin, P. D. (1993). Game Theory and Strategy, MAA New Mathematical Library. Amazon Link

Thomson, K. (2009). The Young Charles Darwin : Influences and Ideas. New Haven, US, Yale University Press. Amazon Link

von Neumann, J. and O. Morgenstern (2007). Princeton Classic Editions : Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (60). Princeton, US, Princeton University Press. Amazon Link

Wright, S. (1986). "Evolution: Selected papers." Amazon Link

Chapter 11. The Measure of Life

Glass, L. and M. C. Mackey (1988). From Clocks to Chaos, Princeton University Press. Amazon Link

Gleick, J. (1987). Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking. Amazon Link

Izhikevich, E. M. (2007). Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting. Cambridge, MIT University Press. Amazon Link

Nolte, D. D. (2015). Introduction to modern dynamics : chaos, networks, space and time. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Amazon Link Publisher Link

Pikovsky, A. S., M. G. Rosenblum and J. Kurths (2003). Synchronization: A Universal concept in nonlinear science. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Amazon Link

Strogatz, S. H. (2015). SYNC: how order emerges from chaos in the universe, nature, and daily life. New York :, Hachette Books. Amazon Link

Winfree, A. T. (2001). The Geometry of Biological Time, Springer. Amazon Link