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History Of Science Books
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.03 � 28,713 ratings � published 1962
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.99 � 74,330 ratings � published 1995
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.22 � 408,275 ratings � published 2003
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.97 � 9,744 ratings � published 2008
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.32 � 27,907 ratings � published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.13 � 776,754 ratings � published 2010
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.93 � 54,114 ratings � published 2010
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.95 � 5,901 ratings � published 2011
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.08 � 720 ratings � published 1992
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.89 � 54,744 ratings � published 2006
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 � 23,647 ratings � published 1986
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.75 � 29,926 ratings � published 1999
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.00 � 515 ratings � published 1985
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.17 � 194,977 ratings � published 2007
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.88 � 867 ratings � published 2015
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.11 � 1,215 ratings � published 2002
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.82 � 13,822 ratings � published 2001
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.34 � 109,492 ratings � published 2010
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.84 � 19,627 ratings � published 1968
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.01 � 36,206 ratings � published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.36 � 53,130 ratings � published 2016
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.78 � 2,132 ratings � published 2015
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.01 � 119,278 ratings � published 1859
The Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.62 � 640 ratings � published 1996
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.66 � 2,097 ratings � published 2011
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.12 � 844 ratings � published 1957
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.32 � 53,364 ratings � published 2005
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.11 � 11,743 ratings � published 1983
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.78 � 319 ratings � published 1999
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 � 32,397 ratings � published 1997
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.07 � 4,117 ratings � published 2005
Objectivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.31 � 394 ratings � published 2007
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.60 � 3,423 ratings � published 2016
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.04 � 16,702 ratings � published 2011
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.21 � 461,001 ratings � published 1988
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.12 � 1,049 ratings � published 2009
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.75 � 1,938 ratings � published 2012
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.26 � 10,224 ratings � published 2007
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.02 � 8,184 ratings � published 1839
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.95 � 1,463 ratings � published 2010
Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.88 � 618 ratings � published 2003
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.67 � 1,417 ratings � published 2020
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.25 � 1,170 ratings � published 1959
Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.79 � 9,349 ratings � published 2003
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.01 � 7,354 ratings � published 2009
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.06 � 9,158 ratings � published 1982
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.27 � 210,803 ratings � published 1985
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 � 28,200 ratings � published 1999
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.12 � 24,039 ratings � published
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 � 154,009 ratings � published 1980
“The first physicist to stress the all-encompassing role of [the fine-structure constant] and [the proton/electron mass ratio] in determining the inevitable structure of atomic systems seems to have been Max Born.”
― The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
― The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
“History, rather than following a predictable path from the past to the present, is like a meander: a twisting and turning stream shaped over time by a combination of obvious and imperceptible forces.”
― Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization
― Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization
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historyofscience, science-history, and scientific-history
