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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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3.82 avg rating — 13,139 ratings
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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
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3.63 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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3.60 avg rating — 315 ratings
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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
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3.87 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 960 ratings
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
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3.40 avg rating — 5,559 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.88 avg rating — 12,406 ratings
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The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
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3.70 avg rating — 711 ratings
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
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4.10 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
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3.33 avg rating — 517 ratings
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The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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3.65 avg rating — 2,648 ratings
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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
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3.67 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 58,019 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 — 10,272 ratings
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
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4.11 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
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3.72 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Scientific Revolution
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3.63 avg rating — 689 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.76 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
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3.62 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution
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3.84 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
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3.99 avg rating — 841 ratings
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A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
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3.76 avg rating — 357 ratings
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A Social History of Knowledge, Volume 1: From Gutenberg to Diderot
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3.92 avg rating — 198 ratings
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