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Physics/Astronomy: Reference Books

Selected resources for finding books, articles, and more on topics in both physics and astronomy.

Reference Books

Reference Books

CHILDREN’S L American Men and Women of Science
  R 925 Am3

Ancient astronomy : an encyclopedia of cosmologies and myth
  R 520.9303 R932

Astronomical Phenomena for the Year
  DOC D 213.8/3

Astronomy Data Book
  523 R56a

Atlas of the Universe
  R 520 M785at 1998

Building blocks of matter : a supplement to the Macmillan encyclopedia of physics
  R530.03 M167

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
  R 530 C9117 2009-2010

Cambridge Astronomy Dictionary
  R 520.3 C144 1996

Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy
  Q 520 C144 1994

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites
  R 523.5103 N825c

Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun
  R 523.703 L253c

Careers in physics    
  R 530.023 C2716

Conversion Factors
  502.12 C772c

Dictionary of Astronomy
  R 520.3 F119 2000

Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy
  R 520.3 D562 2001

Dictionary of Minor Named Planets
  R 523.4403 Sch42d2

Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics
  R 503 B21d2

Dictionary of Physics
  R 530.03 D368d 1999

Dictionary of Space Technology
  R 629.403 An435d2

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  R 520.3 En195 2001

Encyclopedia of Cosmology
  R 523.103 En195

Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy
  R 535.84 En19

Encyclopedia of the Solar System
  R 523.203 En195

Facts on File Dictionary of Astronomy
  R 520.3 F119 2000

Frontiers of Space Exploration
  R 629.45 L371f

Groundbreaking scientific experiments, inventions, and discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  R 509.409 K92

History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia
  R 520.3 H629

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology: A Comprehensive History of Space Exploration
  R 629.403 IL627

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology...
  R 508 N213i

International Encyclopedia of Astronomy
  R 520.3 In855

Mathematics Dictionary
  R 510.3 J236m5

McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
  R 503 M178 1989

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Physics
  R 530.03 M178 1993

New Dictionary of Physics
  R 530.03 F79d2

Omni Space Almanac
  R 629.4 M117o

Oxford Dictionary of Physics
  R 530.03 D561 2000

Recent Advances and Issues in Astronomy
  R 520 D442r

Recent Advances and Issues in Physics
  R 530 N482r

Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas
  523.002 H835t

USA in Space
  R 629.4097 V842

Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia
  R 503 V338 2002

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