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Supplementary readings for Week 5's lectures include excerpts
from:
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The World, or Treatise on Light (1629-1633), by René
Descartes
(1596-1650)
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The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666),
by Margaret Cavendish,
Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), by Bernard le Bovier
de Fontenelle
(1657-1757)
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Micromegas: A Tale of Interplanetary Travel (1752), by Voltaire
(François Marie Arouet; 1694-1778)
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An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750), by
Thomas Wright
(1711-1786)
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