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- ↑ Michael Crowe: Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Program of Liberal Studies University of Notre Dame: John J. Reilly Center
- ↑ Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis Review by William C. Waterhouse, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 78, no. 3, May 1972
- ↑ p. 12 of Michael J. Crowe, 'A History of Vector Analysis' (talk at University of Louisville, 2002)
- ↑ Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis, review by P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews, 14 April 2012
- ↑ Dissertation: The history of the idea of a vectorial system to 1910 by Michael J. Crowe, University of Wisconsin, 1965
- ↑ WorldCat, Michael J. Crowe
- ↑ Michael J. Crowe, Gestalt shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, review by Bernard Lightman in Isis, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 846-847, 2019
- ↑ Michael J. Crowe, The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900, review by David W. Hughes in New Scientist, 2 October 1986, p. 50
- ↑ Michael J. Crowe, The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900, review by Steven J. Dick in Isis, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 257-259, 1987
- ↑ Michael J. Crowe Awarded the 2010 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize by Sara J. Schechner, Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society
