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History Of Science Books
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,462 ratings — published 1962
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,616 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,406 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 — 9,887 ratings — published 2008
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,991 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,953 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 60 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,526 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 — 5,957 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 4.09 — 727 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 — 55,619 ratings — published 2006
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,105 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 — 30,219 ratings — published 1999
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 897 ratings — published 2015
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 528 ratings — published 1985
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 199,579 ratings — published 2007
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,232 ratings — published 2002
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,859 ratings — published 1968
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 — 14,029 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 — 112,413 ratings — published 2010
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,176 ratings — published 2015
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 — 36,754 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,699 ratings — published 2016
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,923 ratings — published 1859
The Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.63 — 662 ratings — published 1996
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,118 ratings — published 2011
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,922 ratings — published 2005
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,960 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 — 862 ratings — published 1957
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,045 ratings — published 1997
Objectivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 412 ratings — published 2007
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,508 ratings — published 2016
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 — 4,180 ratings — published 2005
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,802 ratings — published 1983
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,439 ratings — published 2007
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,831 ratings — published 1988
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 322 ratings — published 1999
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,492 ratings — published 2020
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,063 ratings — published 2009
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,962 ratings — published 2012
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,331 ratings — published 1839
Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 624 ratings — published 2003
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,498 ratings — published 2010
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 215,214 ratings — published 1985
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 — 1,207 ratings — published 1959
Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,526 ratings — published 2003
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 59,482 ratings — published 2020
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 — 7,436 ratings — published 2009
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,263 ratings — published 1982
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 — 28,687 ratings — published 1999
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,989 ratings — published 2017
“Did von Neumann understand the potential of the machines he helped to invent? Yes, he did. In reflective mood in 1955, he noted that the ‘over-all capacity’ of computers had ‘nearly doubled every year’ since 1945 and often implied in conversation that he expected that trend to continue. His observations prefigure ‘Moore’s law’, named after Intel’s cofounder Gordon Moore, who predicted in 1965 that the number of components on an integrated circuit would double every year.”
― The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
― The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
“In the early days of atomic physics [before quantum field theory revealed the true meaning of the fine structure constant to be the strength of the coupling between the electron and photon], it was thought to have a value so close to being precisely 1/137 that numerologists started to establish cultish associations with the number 137.”
― Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
― Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
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historyofscience, science-history, and scientific-history
