Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large)'s votes on the list Social Histories of Science

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1	A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester 3.83 avg rating — 12,881 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 296 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World by John Freely 3.59 avg rating — 309 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The House Of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons 3.87 avg rating — 1,082 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies 3.88 avg rating — 938 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor 3.40 avg rating — 5,463 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 11,707 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah E. Harkness 3.70 avg rating — 693 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by Steven Shapin 4.13 avg rating — 87 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World by Amir D. Aczel 3.33 avg rating — 511 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease by Hevre Bazin 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 2,622 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes by Lisa Rosner 3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 56,398 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 3.97 avg rating — 10,010 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by John Gribbin 4.11 avg rating — 1,240 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science by John Henry 3.73 avg rating — 113 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin 3.62 avg rating — 674 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution by Lisa Jardine 3.78 avg rating — 322 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) by Moran 3.61 avg rating — 76 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution by John Gribbin 3.83 avg rating — 164 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World by Jenny Uglow 3.98 avg rating — 825 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks by Clifford D. Conner 3.77 avg rating — 349 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	A Social History of Knowledge, Volume 1: From Gutenberg to Diderot by Peter Burke 3.93 avg rating — 191 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars