Автор книг «Первые три минуты», «Мечты об окончательной теории», «Лицом к лицу» и «Виды на озеро», а также работ по теоретической физике. Занимает должность профессора физики и астрономии в Техасском университете в Остине.
Библиография
В этой библиографии перечислены современные источники по истории науки, на которые я опирался, а также оригинальные работы ученых прошлого, которые я использовал, – от пресократиков до Ньютона и частично работы более поздних ученых. Все книги написаны на английском языке или переведены на английский. К сожалению, я не владею латинским, греческим и тем более арабским языками. Этот список не претендует на звание наиболее авторитетного источника или собрания лучших изданий по теме. Это просто книги, с которыми мне посчастливилось работать.
Первоисточники
Archimedes, The Works of Archimedes, trans. T. L. Heath (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1897).
Aristarchus, Aristarchus of Samos, trans. T. L. Heath (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1923).
Aristotle, The Complete Works of Aristotle – The Revised Oxford Translation, ed. J. Barnes (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1984).
Augustine, Confessions, trans. Albert Cook Outler (Westminster, Philadelphia, Pa.,1955).
–, Retractions, trans. M. I. Bogan (Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1968).
Cicero, On the Republic and On the Laws, trans. Clinton W. Keys (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.,1928).
Cleomedes, Lectures on Astronomy,ed. and trans. A. C. Bowen and R. B. Todd (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004).
Copernicus, Nicolas Copernicus On the Revolutions, trans. Edward Rosen (Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw, 1978; reprinted by Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md., 1978).
–, Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, trans. A. M. Duncan (Barnes and Noble, New York, 1976).
–-, Three Copernican Treatises, trans. E. Rosen (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, Inc., New York, 1939). Consists of Commentariolus, Letter Against Werner, and the Narratio prima of Rheticus.
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 6th ed. (John Murray, London, 1885).
René Descartes, Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology, trans. Paul J. Olscamp (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, Ind., 1965).
–, Principles of Philosophy, trans. V. R. Miller and R. P. Miller (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1983).
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, trans. R. D. Hicks (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972).
Euclid, The Thirteen Books of the Elements, 2nd ed., trans. Thomas L. Heath (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1925).
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican, trans.Stillman Drake (Modern Library, New York,2001).
–, Discourse on Bodies in Water, trans. Thomas Salusbury (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1960).
–, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, trans. Stillman Drake (Anchor Books, New York, 1957). Contains The Starry Messenger, Letter to Christina, and excerpts from Letters on Sunspots and The Assayer.
–, The Essential Galileo, trans. Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Hackett, Indianapolis, Ind.2008). Includes The Sidereal Messenger, Letter to Castelli, Letter to Christina, Reply to Cardinal Bellarmine, etc.
–, Siderius Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger, trans. Albert van Helden (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989).
–, Two New Sciences, Including Centers of Gravity and Force of Percussion, trans. Stillman Drake (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1974).
Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner, On Sunspots, trans. and ed. Albert van Helden and Eileen Reeves (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1010).
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, The Beginnings of Sciences, trans. I. Goldheizer, in Studies on Islam¸ ed. Merlin L. Swartz (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981).
–, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, trans. Sabih Ahmad Kamali (Pakistan Philosophical Congress, Lahore, 1958).
Herodotus, The Histories, trans. Aubery de Selincourt, revised ed. (Penguin Classics, London, 2003).
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Richmond Lattimore (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1951).
–, The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1961).
Horace, Odes and Epodes, trans. Niall Rudd (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004).
Christiaan Huygens, The Pendulum Clock or Geometrical Demonstrations Concerning the Motion of Pendula as Applied to Clocks, trans. Richard J. Blackwell (Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1986).
–, Treatise on Light, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1945).
Johannes Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World, trans. C. G. Wallis (Prometheus, Amherst, N.Y., 1995).
–, New Astronomy (Astronomia Nova), trans. W. H. Donahue, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).
Omar Khayyam, The Rubáiyát, the Five Authorized Editions, trans. Edward Fitzgerald (Walter J. Black, New York, 1942).
–, The Rubáiyát, a Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations, by Richard Le Gallienne (John Lan, London, 1928).
Lactantius, Divine Institutes, trans. A. Bowen and P. Garnsey (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2003).
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, ed. H. G. Alexander (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1956).
Martin Luther, Table Talk, trans. W. Hazlitt (H. G. Bohn, London, 1857).
Moses ben Maimon, Guide to the Perplexed, trans. M. Friedländer, 2nd ed. (Routledge, London, 1919).
Isaac Newton, The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, ed. D. Thomas Whiteside (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1968).
–, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, trans. Florian Cajori, rev. by Andrew Motte (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962).
–, Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light (Dover, New York, 1952; based on the 4th ed., London, 1730).
