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On the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous æther

Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham); Morley, Edward Williams

History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time

William Whewell

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Astronomy for Amateurs

Camille Flammarion

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

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The volume is a facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci’s own handwritten treatises on optics, collected under the…

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard A. Proctor

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