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History Of Science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences.

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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit. Wahr, falsch, plausibel? Die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Modern Science Nonfiction
412 books — 289 voters
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Serious History Books
36 books — 3 voters


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