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History Of Science Books
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,378 ratings — published 1962
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,486 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,520 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 — 9,862 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 — 28,873 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,348 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 — 55,395 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 — 5,949 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 — 55,511 ratings — published 2006
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,043 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 — 30,191 ratings — published 1999
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 524 ratings — published 1985
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 896 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 199,083 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 — 1,230 ratings — published 2002
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,841 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 — 14,008 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 — 112,097 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 — 2,173 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 — 36,670 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,541 ratings — published 2016
The Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.63 — 658 ratings — published 1996
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,717 ratings — published 1859
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,117 ratings — published 2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,925 ratings — published 2011
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,500 ratings — published 2005
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 861 ratings — published 1957
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,971 ratings — published 1997
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 — 3,499 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 — 4,171 ratings — published 2005
Objectivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 411 ratings — published 2007
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 — 10,415 ratings — published 2007
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,597 ratings — published 1988
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 323 ratings — published 1999
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,796 ratings — published 1983
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,484 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 — 1,062 ratings — published 2009
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,957 ratings — published 2012
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,320 ratings — published 1839
Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 623 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 — 1,492 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 — 214,737 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 — 1,204 ratings — published 1959
Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,515 ratings — published 2003
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 — 7,432 ratings — published 2009
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,599 ratings — published 1980
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,250 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 — 28,638 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 4.31 — 21,874 ratings — published 2017
“Feynman resented the polished myths of most scientific history, submerging the false steps and halting uncertainties under a surface of orderly intellectual progress, but he created a myth of his own.”
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
“For reasons that are both obvious and highly functional, science textbooks (and too many of the older histories of science) refer only to that part of the work of past scientists that can easily be viewed as contributions to the statement and solution of the texts' paradigm problems. Partly by selection and partly by distortion, the scientists of early ages are implicitly represented as having worked upon the same set of fixed problems and in accordance with the same set of fixed canons that the most recent revolution in scientific theory and method has made seem scientific.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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historyofscience, science-history, and scientific-history
