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Appendix to the Collection Development Policy NRAO CORE TEXT LIST This is an initial, working document with updates to follow near term. Longer term, the document will be updated routinely. Q 125 .C68 1961 Augustine to Galileo / A. C. Crombie. Q 125 .H72 1973 Thematic origins of scientific thought; Kepler to Einstein [by] Gerald Holton. Q 125 .S32 1953 Introduction to the history of science / by George Sarton. Q 125 .W55 1837 History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present times. By the Rev. William Whewell ... Q 130 .C66 2006 Two paths to heaven's gate / by Nan Dieter Conklin. Q 175 .K84 1962 The structure of scientific revolutions / by Thomas S. Kuhn. QA 3 .C65 1961 Collected works / John Von Neumann, general editor, A. H. Taub. QA 3 .H36 1964 Handbook of mathematical functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables, edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun. QA 3 .N48 1956 The world of mathematics; a small library of the literature of mathematics from Ah‐ mose the scribe to Albert Einstein, presented with commentaries and notes by James R. Newman. QA 3 .S63 1959A source book in mathematics / by David Eugene Smith QA 5 .E53 1977 Encyclopedic dictionary of mathematics / by the Mathematical Society of Japan ; edited by Shokichi Iyanaga and Yukiyosi Kawada ; translation reviewed by Kenneth O. May. QA 11 .T67 1964 Topics in mathematics. QA 21 .S62 1958 History of mathematics. QA 31 .T45 1956 The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements, / translated from the text of Heiberg, with introd. and commentary by Sir Thomas L. Heath. QA 35 .S20 1983 Mathematical and physical papers / by G.G. Stokes. QA 36 .M38 1964 Mathematics, its content, methods, and meaning. Edited by A.D. Aleksandrov, A.N. Kolmogorov [and] M.A. Lavrentev. Translated by S.H. Gould and T. Bartha. QA 37 .K45 1961 Mathematics of modern engineering / by Ernest G. Keller and Robert E. Doherty. QA 37 .K74 1961 Mathematical handbook for scientists and engineers; definitions, theorems, and formulas for reference and review / [by] Granino A. Korn [and] Theresa M. Korn. QA 273 .F37 1957 An introduction to probability theory and its applications / William Feller. QA 276 .K46 2004 Kendall's advanced theory of statistics. QA 278 .B48 1969 Data reduction and error analysis for the physical sciences [by] Philip R. Bevington. QA 297 .N63 1964 Numerical methods / [by] Ben Noble. QA 371 .F72 1959 Theory of differential equations / by Andrew Russell Forsyth. QA 401 .C72 1962 Methods of mathematical physics / by R. Courant and D. Hilbert. QA 401 .M48 1963 Methods in computational physics. QA 403 .B73 1965 The Fourier transform and its applications / [by] Ron Bracewell. QA 404 .F73 1958 An introduction to Fourier methods and the Laplace transformation / by Philip Franklin. QA 911 .B37 1961 A treatise on hydrodynamics with numerous examples / by A.B. Basset. QB 1 .A38 1962 Advances in astronomy and astrophysics. QB 1 .A56 1975 Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics. QB 1 .E85 1987 10th European Regional Astronomy Meeting of the IAU, Praha, Czechoslovakia, August 24‐29, 1987 : Proceedings / Chief editor: Lubos Perek. QB 1 .R48 1988 Reviews in modern astronomy. QB 1 .S68 1978 Proceedings of the Southwest Regional Conference for Astronomy and Astrophysics. QB 1 .T73 1922 Transactions of the International Astronomical Union. QB 3 .A65 1960 Nauchnye trudy / V.A. Ambartsumian. Pod. red. V. V. Sobodeva. QB 3 .K47 1937 Gesammelte Werke / Johannes Kepler ; herausgegeben im Auftrag der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, unter der Leitung von Walther von Dyck und Max Caspar. QB 3 .L29 1843 Oeuvres de Laplace. QB 3 .T55 1955 Osnovnye trudy / G.A. Tiknov. QB 3 .W45 1972 The collected contributions of Fred L. Whipple. QB 6 .A44 1903 Catalogue photographique du ciel. Coordonnees rectilignes. QB 6 .A45 1975 AGK3 : star catalogue of positions and proper motions, north of 2.5 declination : derived from photographic plates taken at Bergedorf and Bonn in the years 1928‐1932 and 1956‐1963 / planned by O. Heckmann ; produced and edited by W. Dieckvoss, in collaboration with H. Kox, A. Gunther, E. Brosterhus. QB 6 .A67 1953 Apparent places of fundamental stars, containing the 1535 stars in the Third fundamental catalogue (FK3). QB 6 .A74 1859 Bonner Durchmusterung / by Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander. QB 6 .A83 1955 Astrographic catalogue, 1900.0. Rectangular co‐ordinates and diameters of star images, from photos. taken and measured under the direction of R.L.J. Ellery and Pietro Baracchi. Rev. and prepared for publication under the supervision of J.M. Baldwin. QB 6 .A84 1918 Astrographic catalogue 1900.0, Hyderabad section (Part III), Dec +36 to 39: from photographs taken and measured at the Nizamiah Observatory, Hyderaboad / under the direction of T.P. Bhaskaran. QB 6 .A85 1953 Astrographic catalogue 1900.0, Potsdam‐Oxford section, dec. +31 to +34. From photos. taken by F. A. Bellamy and H. G. Scott Barrett and measured at the University Observatory, Oxford, by the methods initiated by Herbert Hall Turner. QB 6 .A86 1911 Astrographic catalogue 1900.0. Perth section, Dec. ‐31 to ‐41. From photographs taken and measured at the Perth Observatory, under the direction of W. Ernest Cooke ... QB 6 .A87 1904 Astrographic catalog 1900.0 from photographs taken and measured at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, under the direction of Sir Frank Watson Dyson. QB 6 .A88 1925 Astrographic catalogue 1900.0. Sydney section, dec. ‐51 to ‐65. QB 6 .B66 1949 Bonner Durchmusterung. Sudlicher Teil. Deklinations‐Zonen ‐2 bis ‐ 22 Sternverzeichnis. QB 6 .B67 1936 General catalogue of 33342 stars for the epoch 1950 ... prepared at the Dudley Observatory, Albany, New York, by Benjamin Boss, director, Department of Meridian Astrometry, Carnegie Institution of Washington, with the collaboration of Sebastian Albrecht, Heroy Jenkins, Harry Raymond, Arthur J. Roy, William B. Varnum [and] Ralph E. Wilson. QB 6 .B83 1979 Bucharest catalogues of southern reference stars "SRS" declination zone ‐10 to +5 and bright stars "BS" declination zone ‐11 to +6, equinox 1950.0 / carried out at the Meridian Circle of Bucharest under supervision of Ella Marcus and Ion Rusu. QB 6 .C30 1903 Catalogue photographique du ciel : coordonnees rectilignes. QB 6 .H57 1997 The Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues : astrometric and photometric star catalogues derived from the ESA Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission / a collaboration between the European Space Agency and the FAST, NDAC, TDAC and INCA Consortia and the Hipparcos Industrial Consortium led by Matra Marconi Space and Alenia Spazio. QB 6 .H64 1964 Catalogue of bright stars : containing data compiled through 1962 / with appendices giving indices to constellation designations and named stars. QB 6 .H64 1983 A supplement to the Bright star catalogue : containing data compiled through 1981 for stars 7.10V and brighter that are not in the Bright star catalogue / by Dorrit Hoffleit, Michael Saladyga, Peter Wlasuk. QB 6 .L87 1956 A search for faint blue stars, nos. 1‐50 / Willem J. Luyten. QB 6 .L88 1979 NLTT catalogue / Willem J. Luyten. QB 6 .P46 1901 Photographische Himmelskarte. Zone +31 [deg.] bis +40 [deg.] deklination. Katalog ... / Redigirt von J. Scheiner. QB 6 .P76 1991 PPM star catalogue : positions and proper motions of 181731 stars north of ‐2.5 degrees declination for equinox and epoch J2000.0 / compiled by Siegfried Roser and Ulrich Bastian. QB 6 .S36 1951 Zweiter Katalog der Astronomischen Gesellschaft fur das Aquinoktium 1950 : Orter der Sterne bis zur neunten Grosse zwischen dem Nordpol und 2 sudlicher Dek‐ lination abgeleitet aus photographischen Himmelsaufnahmen der Sternwarten Bergedorf und Bonn / unter Leitung von Richard Storr und Arnold Kohlschutter. QB 6 .S73 1966 Star catalog: positions and proper motions of 258,997 stars for the epoch and equinox of 1950.0. QB 8 .A44 1881 The astronomical almanac for the year ... / by United States Naval Observatory, et al. QB 9 .A88 1991 Astronomical phenomena for the year ... / issued by the Nautical Almanac Office, United States Naval Observatory. QB 15 .P36 1961 A history of astronomy / A. Pannekoek. QB 19 .A88 1955 Astronomical cuneiform texts : Babylonian ephemerides of the Seleucid period for the motion of the sun, the moon, and the planets / ed. by O. Neugebauer. QB 36 .G37 1996 Cecilia Payne‐Gaposchkin : an autobiography and other recollections / edited by Katherine Haramundanis. QB 42 .L37 1809 The system of the world / by P. S. Laplace ; Tr. from the French by J. Pond. QB 43 .R87 1945 Astronomy : a revision of Young's Manual of astronomy / by Henry Norris Russell ... Raymond Smith Dugan ... John Quincy Stewart ... QB 43 .V65 1969 Abriss der Astronomie / von Hans‐Heinrich Voigt. QB 43.2 .A88 1982 Astronomy and astrophysics for the 1980's / Astronomy Survey Committee, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council. QB 43.2 .A88 1985 Astronomie Flammarion / sous la direction de Jean‐Claude Pecker. QB 43.2 .D58 1971 Dynamic astronomy / [by] Robert T. Dixon. QB 43.2 .H46 1983 The new astronomy / Nigel Henbest, Michael Marten. QB 43.2 .N37 1991 The decade of discovery in astronomy and astrophysics / Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council. QB 43.2 .N38 1972 Astronomy and astrophysics for the 1970's / Astronomy Survey Committee, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. QB 43.2 .S44 1986 Foundations of astronomy / Michael A. Seeds. QB 43.2 .U57 1977 The new cosmos / Albrecht Unsold. QB 43.3 .S36 2007 Pathways to astronomy / Stephen E. Schneider, Thomas T. Arny. QB 44 .G36 1940 The birth and death of the sun : stellar evolution and sub‐atomic energy / [by] George Gamow ... illustrated by the author. QB 44.2 .P74 1987 First light : the search for the edge of the universe / Richard Preston.
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