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Sima Qian
Sima Qian

historian, poet, astrologer, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer

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Shi ji
The Grand Scribe's Records
Shiki retsuden
The first emperor
War-lords
Shih chi
Selections from Records of the historian
Shi ji xuan yi
Shi ji xuan yi (Gudaiwenshimingzhuxuanyicongshu)
Ssǔ-ma Ch'ien's historiographical attitude as reflected in four late warring states biographies
Er shi si shi jing hua
Sagi
Ssu-ma Ch'ien's historiographical attitude as reflected in four late Warring States biographies
Shiki
Historical records
Sagi pyongnim
The Cream of Classical Chinese Literature, Vol. 3 (Condensed, Chinese-English Edition; 8-Book Boxed Set)
Records of the grand historian of China
Tai shi gong su wang miao lun
Shiki kokujikai
Mémoires historiques
Grand Scribes Records (Grand Scribe's Records)
Istoric eskie zapiski
Shih chi so yin
Xiao He, Han Xin
Shi ji xuan (Zhongguo li dai san wen zuo jia xuan ji)
Shi ji jin shi
Shi ji lun wen
Shi ji jing hua lu
Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng
Les Mémoires historiques de Se-ma Tsʼien
Records of the Historians
Shiki kaichū kōshō kōho
Statesman, patriot, and general in ancient China, three Shih Chi biographies of the Ch'in dynasty (255-206 B.C.)
Shi ji (Gu dian ming zhu pu ji wen ku)
Sama Chon Sagi
Records of the historian
Bai hua Shi ji
The First Emperor Selections From The Historical Records
Le chapitre 117 du Che-ki (biographie de SSeu-ma Siang-jou)
Shi ji jin zhu
Quan zhu quan yi Shi ji
Sagi pyongnim, Shi Ji
Gu xiang zhai Shi ji
Selections from Records of the historian
Istoric eskie zapiskik
Shi ji ji jie suo yin zheng yi he ke ben
Shi ji
Statesman, Patriot and General in Ancient China (American Oriental Ser.; No. 17)
Xin jiao Shi ji san jia zhu
Bai hua Shi ji
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji di gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shao nian ban shi ji
Lian Po, Lin Xiangru, Lu Zhonglian. xuan zi Shi ji
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi all in one
Quan yi shi ji
Sima Qian san wen xuan ji (Bai hua san wen shu xi)
Shi ji dao du
Shi ji zha ji
Selections from the Records of the Historian
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji
Shi ji xuan jiang
Stories from "Records of the Historian"
Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng jiao ding
Shi ji tian guan shu jin zhu
Shi ji gu shi
guang zhu yu shi Shi ji jing hua
Shi ji xiang jie
A Comprehensive Mirror of Chinese History (Tzu Zhi Tung Jian)(Complete) (Volumes 1-20)
Ch'o nha ru l nakka ollin yo ngungdu l
Shi ji xuan ji
Cai se tu jie shiji
Shi ji gu shi
The Grand Scribe's Records: Volume 2
Sudur temdeglel-ece songġuġsan u̇liger
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

theoretical physicist, cosmologist

  • University of Oxford, University of Cambridge

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Black holes and baby universes and other essays
God Created the Integers
My Brief History
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Das große Stephen-Hawking-Lesebuch
George and the Big Bang
George's Secret Key to the Universe
A Briefer History of Time
The Universe in a Nutshell
The theory of everything
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
The nature of space and time
The Grand Design
Faces of the Century
A Brief History of Time
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Black Holes
George and the Unbreakable Code
The large scale structure of space-time
The future of theoretical physics and cosmology
On the Shoulders of Giants
Hawking on the big bang and black holes
The future of spacetime
Computer Resources for People With Disabilities
Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?
General Relativity; an Einstein Centenary Survey
The illustrated theory of everything
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time
George's Secret Key Complete Hardcover Collection
You and the Universe
Apollo
Stephen Hawking's Universe
Universe in a Nutshell/Illustrated Brief History of Time
The illustrated A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell
Los sueños de los que está hecha la materia
George and the blue moon
George's Secret Key to the Universe Complete 6 Books Collection Set
Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Essential Einstein
Genius of Britain (Text Only)
Einsteins Traum. Expeditionen an die Grenzen der Raumzeit
The dreams that stuff is made of
Superspace and supergravity
George and the Unbreakable Code
Unlocking the Universe
George ve Mavi Ay
Wo men wei he zai ci
The Search for Infinity
Stephen Hawking
Penguin Readers Level 5
Historia del tiempo
La grande avventura dell'universo
What Is Inside a Black Hole?
ha-Teʼoryah shel ha-kol
SOBRE LES ESPATLLES DE GEGANTS
Benim Kisa Tarihim
Hōkingu uchū to ningen o kataru
Breves respuestas a las grandes preguntas [Hardcover] Hawking, Stephen
George and the Ship of Time
George and the Unbreakable Code
Will Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Us?
Supernova 2121
Aforizmalar
Georges Secret Key To The (Chinese Edition)
Stephen Hawking Time and Universe
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Guo qiao li de 60 nian
Haben Schwarze Löcher keine Haare?
George i błękitny księżyc
Historia Del Tiempo Illustrada
El Cosmos/The Cosmos
Will We Survive on Earth?
The Cambridge Lectures
HISTORIA DEL TEMPS -
How Did It All Begin?
George's Secret Key To The Universe
Stephen W. Hawking's Life Works
New Scientist : the Origin of Everything
Black Holes and Time Warps
ʼChar ʼgod chen mo
Great Science Writers of the Decade
Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

astronomer, physicist, mathematician, astrophysicist, researcher

  • University of Cambridge, Bingley Grammar School

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Home is where the wind blows
Nicolaus Copernicus: an essay on his life and work
The small world of Fred Hoyle
The quasar controversy resolved
The Black Cloud
Diseases from space
Laughing Space
Into deepest space
Great Science Fiction
Lifecloud, the origin of life in the universe
Fifth planet
The inferno
Comet Halley
Our place in the cosmos
A for Andromeda
Commonsense in nuclear energy
Seven Steps to the Sun
Ten faces of the universe
Ossian's ride
A for Andromeda
Element 79
On Stonehenge
The physics-astronomy frontier
The Expert Dreamers
Astronomy
The molecule men
Highlights in astronomy
Man and materialism
A different approach to cosmology
Commonsense in nuclear energy
The incandescent ones
Astronomy and cosmology
The nature of the universe
Energy or extinction?
Life on Mars?
Rockets in Ursa Major
Andromeda breakthrough
Fifth planet
Astronomical origins of life
Of Men And Galaxies (Great Minds)
Nicolaus Copernicus
The incandescent ones
Archaeopteryx, the primordial bird
The intelligent universe
The Frontiers of Knowledge
The Westminster disaster
Frontiers of astronomy
Man in the universe
Seven Steps to the Sun
Le nuage de la vie
Fifth Planet
Man in the universe. --
The Nature of the Universe
Space travellers
A for Andromeda
Into deepest space
Common sense in nuclear energy
The theory of cosmic grains
From Stonehenge to modern cosmology
Evolution from space
Man in the Universe (Bampton Lectures in America)
A for Andromeda
The new face of science
Lifecloud
Evolution from Space
Ice
Political Shakespeare
The relation of biology to astronomy
Astronomy today
Evolution from space
The Westminster disaster
Diseases from Space
Frontiers of astronomy
Steady-State Cosmology Re-Visited
The cosmogony of the solar system
The origin of life
Andromeda Breakthrough
Comet Halley
October the First Is Too Late
Cosmic life-force
Lectures on cosmology and action at a distance electrodynamics
The cosmagony of the solar system
Andromeda breakthrough
Some recent researches in solar physics
Of men and galaxies
Living comets
Vindication of Cosmic Biology
Some recent researches in solar physics
The origin of the universe and the origin of religion
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus
Home is Where the Wind Blows
Origin of Life
Origen y Destino de Las Estrellas
Action at a distance in physics and cosmology
The origin of the universe and the origin of religion
Lifecloud
October the first is too late
Evolution from space (the Omni lecture) and other papers on the origin of life
Ossian's Ride
Intelligent Universe
The physics-astronomy frontier
'Mathematics of Evolution'
Our Place in the Cosmos
Ice, the ultimate human catastrophe
Frontiers of astronomy
Three Classic Novels
Galaxies, nuclei, and quasars
Andromeda Breakthough
The Andromeda Anthology
October the first is too late
Astronomy
Man and Materialism
Encounter with the future
Ice
Frontiers Of Astronomy
From grains to bacteria
The Incandescent Ones
Lectures on cosmology and action at a distance electrodynamics
Viruses from space and related matters
Encounter with the future
A decade of decision
Ice
Andromeda breakthrough
Facts and dogmas in cosmology and elsewhere
Astronomy
A for Andromeda
Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere
Man and materialism
October the First is Too Late
Evolucion de La Vida Desde El Espacio Exterior
Steady-state cosmology re-visited
Frozen Planet of Azuron
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus: The St. John's College Cambridge lecture 1962-63 delivered at the University of Hull 17 May 1963
The universe
Of Men and Galaxies
The Universe According to Hoyle
Nature of the Universe
Man and materialism
Rockets in Ursa Major
Man in the universe
Proofs that life is Cosmic
Astronomy Today
Les Incandescents
Energi eller undergang?
Living comets
October the First Is Too Late (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Some recent advances in solar physics
Galaxies, nuclei and quasars
Galaxies, nuclei and quasars
Home Is Where the Wind Blows
The Anglo-Austrian Telescope
The nature of the universe
Fifth Planet (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
The nature of the universe
Living Comets
Frontiers of astronomy
Origin of the Universe and the Origin of Religion
Ossian's ride
Our Place In The Cosmos
Of men and galaxies
The new face of science
Rockets in Ursa Major
The nature of the universe
Some recent researches in solar physics
Galazies, nuclei and quasars
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus
A decade of decision
Andromeda Anthology
La nube negra
A for Andromeda
Viruses from space and related matters
La nube negra
The planet of death
The energy pirate
Man in the universe
Different Approach to Cosmology
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus
The giants of universal park
Ankoku seiun
Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji
Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji (born 1950)

publisher, physicist

  • University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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A Place Within
Mordecai Richler
And home was Kariakoo
The in-between world of Vikram Lall
Amriika
The book of secrets
The assassin's song
Contemporary African Short Stories
No new land
Uhuru Street
The gunny sack
The magic of Saida
The Magic of Saida
A Meeting of streams
Everything There Is
Elvis, Raja
The assassin's song
World of Wonders
Brian May
Brian May (born 1947)

guitarist, astrophysicist, singer, composer, pianist, television presenter, record producer, actor, physicist, research fellow, YouTuber, lyricist

  • Imperial College London, University of London

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Queen in 3-D
Crinoline
Diableries
The Poor Man's Picture Gallery
A Village Lost And Found
The modernist as pragmatist
Understanding Russia
How to Make the Most of Your Tractor
Extravagant postcolonialism
Bang!
Guitar Styles
Indonesian Tragedy
Interactive Japanese Bk. 1
"Queen"
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757)

philosopher, poet, playwright, satirist, librettist, mathematician, lawyer, religious studies scholar, astronomer

  • Lycée Pierre-Corneille

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Éloges
Éloges des académiciens
The eloge of Professor Boerhaave, M.D
Eloge de Monsieur le Chevalier Neuton
Histoire du renouvellement de l'Académie royale des sciences en 1699 et les éloges historiques de tous les académiciens morts depuis ce renouvellement
Éloges des académiciens avec l'histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences en 1699 avec un discours préliminaire sur l'utilité des mathématiques
Éloges des académiciens de l'Académie royale des sciences, morts depuis l'an 1699
An account of the life and writings of Sr. Isaac Newton
Eloges des académiciens de l'Académie royale des sciences, morts depuis l'an 1699
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Histoire des oracles
Nouveaux dialogues des morts
Élémens de la géométrie de l'infini
Œuvres de Fontenelle
Œuvres choisies
Oeuvres de Fontenelle
Oeuvres
Oeuvres choisies de Fontenelle
Oeuvres de Fontenelle
Lettres galantes de Monsieur le chevalier d'Her
Histoire du renouvellement de l'Academie Royale des Sciences en MDCXCIX et les academiciens morts depuis ce renouvellement, avec un discours preliminaire sur l'utilité des mathematiques et de la physique
Pensees ingenieuses des anciens et des modernes
Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes
Textes choisis (1683-1702)
The history of oracles, tr. [by S. Whatley. Sig. D6 is mutilated]
Rêveries diverses
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Pages choisies
The history of oracles, and the cheats of the pagan priests
Nouveaux dialogues des morts
Éloges de Fontenelle
Éloges de Fontenelle
The life of Sir Isaac Newton
Oeuvres de Fontenelle
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Oeuvres choisies
The history of oracles
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes habités
Oeuvres choisies
Elements de la geometrie de l'infini
Éloges de Fontenelle
Dialogues of the dead
New dialogues of the dead
The achievement of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The elogium of Sir Isaac Newton
Lucian's ghost: or, Dialogues between the dead
The prize of wisdom
The life of Sir Isaac Newton
Élements de la geometrie de l'infini
Dialogues des morts, d'un tour nouveaux
Oeuvres
Textes choisis (1683-1702)
Lettres galantes de Monsieur le chevalier d'Her***
Œuvres complètes
La republique des philosophes
Le tyran
Histoire des oracles
Dialogues of the dead, ancient and modern. The second part
Eloges des academiciens
Conversations on the plurality of worlds
De l'origine des fables, 1724
The life of Sir Isaac Newton
Lettres galantes
Poesies pastorales
uvres
The lives of the French, Italian and German philosophers, late members of the Royal academy of science in Paris
Letters of gallantry. By M. de Fontenelle, under the name of the chevalier d'Her***. Translated into English by Mr. Ozell
Fontenelle
The history of oracles, in two dissertations. ... By M. de. Fontenelle, ... Translated from the best edition of the original French
Poesies pastorales de M.D.F
Herrn Bernhards von Fontenelle ... Auserlesene Schriften
The history of oracles. In two dissertations; wherein are proved, I. That the oracles were not given out by dæmons; ... II. That the oracles did not cease at the coming of Jesus Christ; ... By M. de Fontenelle, ... Translated from the best edition of the original French
Pages choisies
Oeuvres choisies: avec un notice biographique, une notice historique et litteraire, des notes explicatives, des jugements, un questionnaire et des sujets de devoirs
The history of oracles and the cheats of the pagen priests
Oeuvres
Histoire du renouvellement de l'Académie royale des sciences en M.DC.XCIX. et les éloges historiques de tous les académiciens morts depuis ce renouvellement, avec un discours préliminaire sur l'utilité des mathématiques & de la physique
Eloge de M. Neuton
Nouveaux dialogues des morts
Dialogues of the dead
Traité de la liberté
Oeuvres
Fontenenelle
Nouvelles libertés de penser
The northern worthies
Œuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle
Oeuvres complètes
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Eloge du Czar Pierre I
Jugement de Pluton sur les deuz parties des Nouveaux dialogues des morts
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Choix d’éloges de savants
Oeuvres diverses de M. de Fontenelle
Entretiens su la pluralité des mondes
A plurality of worlds. Written in French by the author of the Dialogues of the dead. Translated into English by Mr. Glanvill
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, suivis des dialogues de morts
Oeuvres diverses de M. de Fontenelle de l'Academie Françoise
Oeuvres de Fontenelle
Histoire des oracles
The elogium of His Imperial Majesty Peter I. Czar of Muscovy. By Mons. de Fontenelle, Secretary to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris: ... Translated by C. R. Esq
Le jardinier de Sidon
E lements de la geometrie de l'infini
The achievement of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The history of the oracles
Conversations on the plurality of worlds
Fontenelle Histoire des Ajaoiens
The French Lucian made English; By J.D. Esq
A plurality of words
A discourse of the plurality of worlds
Conversations on the plurality of worlds..
Oeuvres de Fontenelle...
Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle ...
Oeuvres choisies
Pages choisies des grands écrivains: Fontenelle
OEuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle
Textes choisis (1683-1702)
Textes choisis et commentés par Émile Faguet
Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes
Fontenelle
Oeuvres diverses de M. de Fontenelle...
Oeuvres choisis
La république des philosophes
Letters of gallantry. By M. de Fontenelle, under the name of the chevalier d'Her***. Translated into English by Mr. Ozell
Fontenelle's Dialogues of the dead, in three parts
Nouveaux dialogues des morts
Dialogen über die Mehrheit der Welten
The history of oracles, in two dissertations. ... By M. de. Fontenelle, ... Translated from the best edition of the original French
Eloges de Vauban
Manuel complet, th©♭orique et pratique, de pharmacie populaire. Simplifi©♭e et mise © la port©♭e de toutes les classes de la soci©♭t©♭ ...
Fontenelle und die Aufklärung
Dialogues of the dead, in three parts
Opere del Signor Bernardo di Fontenelle
Lettre de Fontenelle sur la résurrection
Le jardinier de Sidon
A discovery of new worlds
Nouveau manuel complet de physique amusante ou nouvelles récréations physiques
Lettres galantes de Monsieur le chavalier d'Her***
Nouveaux dialogues des morts
The history of oracles
Recueil des plus belles pieces des poëtes françois
Opere del Signor Bernardo di Fontenelle ...
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes & Histoire des oracles
The Loves of Mirtil son of Adonis
Dialogen ©ơber die Mehrheit der Welten
Œuvres diverses ...
Bernhards von Fontenelle Gespräche der Todten und Plutons Urtheil über dieselben
A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds
De l'origine des fables (1724)
Oeuvres de Fontenelle
Elemens de la geometrie de l'infini
Poesies pastorales
Lettres galantes de monsieur le chevalier d'Her***
Choix d'ʹeloges
A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author's life and writings
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, augmentés des dialogues des morts
Rassuzhdenii͡a o religii, prirode i razume
Testes choisis (1683-1702)
Nouveau manuel complet du distillateur liquoriste, par messieurs Lebeaud et Julia de Fontenelle
Œuvres diverses ... Tome second. Qui contient l'entretien [sic] sur la pluralité des mondes. L'histoire des oracles
Letters of gallantry
Oeuvres de monsieur de Fontenelle
Œuvres complètes
Thétis et Pélée
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Thetis et Pelée
Storia degli agiaoiani
Oeuvres diverses
Histoire des Ajaoïens
Conversations on the plurality of worlds
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [of I-VI, with 'Description d'un sphère armillaire']
Dialogen über die mehrheit der welten
Enée et Lavinie
Histoire des oracles
A plurality of worlds
Poésies choisies
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Suivis des Dialogues de morts
Conversations with a lady, on the plurality of worlds
Digression sur les anciens et les modernes
The History Of Oracles, And The Cheats Of The Pagan Priests. In Two Parts. Made English
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [I-VI]
Histoire du renouvellement de l'Academie Royale des Sciences en M.DC.XCIX. Et les eloges historiques de tous le Academiciens morts depuis ce renouvellement
A discovery of new worlds, translator's preface, 1688
Discours nature de l'eglogue
Nouveaux dialogues des morts
Histoire du renouvellement de l'Académie royale des sciences en M. DC. XCIX. et les éloges historiques de tous les académiciens morts depuis ce renouvellement
The life of Sir Isaac Newton; with an account of his writings
Œuvres choisies
Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld (1898-1968)

physicist, journalist

  • Jagiellonian University, Frederick William University Berlin

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Whom the gods love
Albert Einstein, his work and its influence on our world
Quest
Szkice z przeszłości
Why I left Canada
L' évolution des idées en physique.
The evolution of physics
The Evolution of Physics From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
The Evolution Of Physics, The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
The Evolution of Physics from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
Ewolucja fizyki
The fourth dimension and relativity ..
Evolution of Physics
Fizigin Evrimi
The Evolution of Physics
Moje wspomnienia o Einsteinie
Atomic energy and world government
The world in modern science
On the theory of Brownian motion
Albert Einstein
Motion and relativity
The equations of motion in electrodynamics
Wybrańcy bogow
Quest
A evolução de um cientista
The world in modern science, matter and quanta
Whom the gods love
Tomas M. Milich
Tomas M. Milich (born 1932)

physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist, historian, faculty member, political activist, lecturer, lawyer

  • Cornell University, New York University

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A view from the year 3000
The 100
The 100
The One Hundred: The 100
Extraterrestrials Where Are They?
Understanding human history
Extraterrestrials--where are they?
Big-time baseball
100 Maiores Personalidades da Historia (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Preserving western civilization
En Etkin 100
Dünyaya Yön Veren En Etkin 100
Puzzles and Paradoxes
Extraterrestrials
The 100. A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History