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Remarkable Creatures
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3.90 avg rating — 56,969 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 10,208 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
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3.84 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 77,724 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 29,468 ratings
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Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
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3.54 avg rating — 189 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 57,444 ratings
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The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon
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3.66 avg rating — 99 ratings
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De mechanisering van het wereldbeeld
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4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Remarkable Minds: Seventeen More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Passionate Minds
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4.10 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 30,877 ratings
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The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our World
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.77 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
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3.39 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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3.84 avg rating — 437 ratings
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The Birdman's Wife
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3.63 avg rating — 1,909 ratings
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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3.86 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.76 avg rating — 30,659 ratings
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Love and the Platypus
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3.82 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Pageant of Elizabethan England
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
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3.62 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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3.66 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
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The Naturalist's Daughter
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4.09 avg rating — 2,172 ratings
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Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
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4.10 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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Books about science before the 20th century
Would that be historical novels, in other words written after 1900 but set before 1901? Or are books published before 1901 meant? Or both maybe? 😉