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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 — 29,583 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 — 75,796 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 417,772 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 — 9,922 ratings — published 2008
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 796,279 ratings — published 2010
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,165 ratings — published 2015
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 — 55,681 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 — 5,970 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 — 728 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 48 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,772 ratings — published 2006
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,172 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 — 30,256 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 — 901 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 — 529 ratings — published 1985
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 200,285 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 — 1,233 ratings — published 2002
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,887 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 — 14,049 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 — 112,832 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 — 2,185 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 — 36,836 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,949 ratings — published 2016
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,179 ratings — published 1859
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,123 ratings — published 2011
The Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.63 — 663 ratings — published 1996
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 57,371 ratings — published 2005
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,000 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 — 868 ratings — published 1957
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,135 ratings — published 1997
Objectivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 413 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 — 3,516 ratings — published 2016
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 473,510 ratings — published 1988
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 — 4,190 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 — 11,815 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 — 10,463 ratings — published 2007
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 — 1,506 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 — 1,068 ratings — published 2009
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,964 ratings — published 2012
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,351 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 — 625 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 — 1,507 ratings — published 2010
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,282 ratings — published 1982
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 215,746 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 4.24 — 1,214 ratings — published 1959
Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,545 ratings — published 2003
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 60,411 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 4.02 — 7,448 ratings — published 2009
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 — 28,752 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 — 22,168 ratings — published 2017
“The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeting.”
― The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
― The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
“[Von Neumann's childhood home's] library’s centrepiece [was] the Allgemeine Geschichte, a massive history of the world edited by the German historian Wilhelm Oncken, which began in Ancient Egypt and concluded with a biography of Wilhelm I, the first German emperor, commissioned by the Kaiser himself. When von Neumann became embroiled in American politics after he emigrated, he would sometimes avoid arguments that were threatening to become too heated by citing (sometimes word for word) the outcome of some obscurely related affair in antiquity that he had read about in Oncken as a child.”
― The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
― The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
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