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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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
The Domestic Revolution
The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit. Wahr, falsch, plausibel? Die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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 Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
163 books — 68 voters

The Greeks and the Irrational by E.R. DoddsMagic, Science and Religion and Other Essays by Bronisław MalinowskiAsclepius by Emma J. EdelsteinStolen Lightning by OKEEFE,Arcana Mundi by Georg Luck
Forbidden Histories
28 books — 2 voters

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
417 books — 294 voters
Typhoid Mary by Judith Walzer LeavittThe Cholera Years by Charles E. RosenbergGhost Map by Steven JohnsonA Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher UlrichThe Miraculous Fever-Tree by Fiammetta Rocco
History of Medicine Classics
35 books — 3 voters


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The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.
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