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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,409 ratings — published 2003
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 52 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,527 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,224,848 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,958 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,616 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,462 ratings — published 1962
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,833 ratings — published 1997
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,835 ratings — published 1988
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,887 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,105 ratings — published 1986
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,925 ratings — published 1859
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,619 ratings — published 2006
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,701 ratings — published 2016
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,951 ratings — published 1980
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 30,219 ratings — published 1999
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 282,511 ratings — published 2015
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,414 ratings — published 2010
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,992 ratings — published 2015
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 215,221 ratings — published 1985
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,754 ratings — published 2010
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 202,569 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 193,110 ratings — published 2014
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,957 ratings — published 2011
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,232 ratings — published 2002
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,029 ratings — published 2001
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 180,301 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,282 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,166 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,581 ratings — published 1999
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,803 ratings — published 2010
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,465 ratings — published 1976
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,231 ratings — published 1995
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,687 ratings — published 1999
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,327 ratings — published 1994
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,176 ratings — published 2015
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,617 ratings — published 2003
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,143 ratings — published 1991
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,670 ratings — published 2012
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,545 ratings — published 1987
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,211 ratings — published 2018
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 897 ratings — published 2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,721 ratings — published 2013
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 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 727 ratings — published 1992
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,960 ratings — published 2011
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,920 ratings — published 2019
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,527 ratings — published 2018
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,591 ratings — published 2014
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,699 ratings — published 2012
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,184 ratings — published 2011
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,645 ratings — published 2003
“قبل حوالي 400 ألف سنة، استأنس أسلافنا النار، وكمختصص في علم الآثار، أرى أن اكتشاف النار أهم بكثير من أن تكون مجرد وسيلة إضاءة في الأماكن والليالي المظلمة، أو طهي وشي الطعام. لقد منحت النار الإنسان البدائي ولأول مرة القدرة على إذابة المعادن، ومن ثم القدرة على تشكيلها وتطويعها لا سيما الحديد وصنع بعض الأدوات البسيطة منها جنبا إلى جنب الأدوات الحجرية، ومن هنا بدأت مهنة الحدادة.
رغم تلك الأهمية العظيمة لاكتشاف النار، لم يتساءل أحدٌ عن ماهيتها، ولم يكونوا في حاجة لذلك، لكن الإنسان فضولي بفطرته، وعندما تستقر الحضارة، يتساءل الإنسان عن مقومات الحضارة.”
― العودة إلى هوجوورتس
رغم تلك الأهمية العظيمة لاكتشاف النار، لم يتساءل أحدٌ عن ماهيتها، ولم يكونوا في حاجة لذلك، لكن الإنسان فضولي بفطرته، وعندما تستقر الحضارة، يتساءل الإنسان عن مقومات الحضارة.”
― العودة إلى هوجوورتس
“Women tended to be more docile and patient, so went the belief, and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around, looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing.”
― The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
― The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
