🐻 Cornell Astronomy unofficial reading list 2026
← Back to Fields of Study
| Freshman level | |
|---|---|
| The Universe ASTRO 1105 / 1107 (su26) |
• A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter & the End of the Arms Race by Sagan & Turco • Physics, Book VIII by Aristotle • Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic & Copernican by Galileo Galilei • Galileo’s Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing by Edmund Blair Bolles • Kepler’s Conversation with Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger • Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye • Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming’s Past by Joshua P. Howe • On Motion, and On Mechanics: Comprising De Motu & Le Meccaniche by Galileo Galilei • On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus • Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State & Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America by Paul Rubinson • Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein • The Sidereal Messenger by Galileo Galilei • The Almagest by Ptolemy • Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Books IV & V By Johannes Kepler • The Harmonies of the World, Book V by Johannes Kepler • The Book Of The Cosmos: Imagining The Universe From Heraclitus To Hawking by Dennis Danielson • The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu • The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton • The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special & General Theory of Relativity by Lorentz et al. ✔️ The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu • Two New Sciences: Including Centers of Gravity & Force of Percussion by Galileo Galilei |