延伸阅读

Angier, Natalie.The Canon:A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007（特别是关于校准，物理和天文学的章节。）

Bryson,Bill.A Short History of Nearly Everything.New York:Broadway Books,2003.

Delsemme,Armande.Our Cosmic Origins:From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Duncan,Todd,and Craig Tyler.Your Cosmic Context:An Introduction to Modern Cosmology.San Francisco: Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2007.

Emiliani,Cesare.The Scientific Companion:Exploring the Physical World with Facts,Figures,and Formulas. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1995.

Greene,Brian.The Fabric of the Cosmos:Space,Time and the Texture of Reality. London: Penguin Books, 2005.

Primack,Joel,and Nancy Abrams.The View from the Center of the Universe:Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos.New York: Penguin,2006.

Sproul,Barbara.Primal Myths: Creation Myths around the World.San Francisco: Harper,1991.