Cosmic Thinkers: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants . A Longer View of Newton and Halley. Essays Commemorating the Tercentenary of Newton's Principia and the 1985-1986 Return of Comet Halley. Norman W. Thrower, Ed. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1990. xxvi, 429 pp., illus. $39.95. From a conference, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 1985.

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Cosmic Thinkers: <i>Standing on the Shoulders of Giants</i> . A Longer View of Newton and Halley. Essays Commemorating the Tercentenary of Newton's <i>Principia</i> and the 1985-1986 Return of Comet Halley. Norman W. Thrower, Ed. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1990. xxvi, 429 pp., illus. $39.95. From a conference, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 1985.