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  1. Science Past from the issue of December 30, 1961

    EARTH AND PLANETS FORMED FROM DUST DRAWN TO SUN — The Earth and all the other planets of the solar system were formed from tiny dust particles accumulating around the sun as it passed through a vast dust cloud in space. This theory on the origin of the solar system was proposed in London by […]

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  2. An Engineer’s Alphabet by Henry Petroski

    A selection of quotations, anecdotes and other engineering trivia is arranged into a mini-encyclopedia of the profession. Cambridge Univ., 2011, 360 p., $21.99

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  3. Galileo’s Muse by Mark A. Peterson

    A physicist and mathematician argues that Renaissance art spurred the scientific revolution that laid the foundations of modern science.