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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 29,587 ratings — published 1962
Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.54 — 61 ratings — published 2011
The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.38 — 13 ratings — published 2011
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.75 — 827 ratings — published 2020
The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics (Princeton Series in Geology and Paleontology)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1986
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,884 ratings — published 2002
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,068 ratings — published 2009
Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology (Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Earth Sciences)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 1996
Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.63 — 27 ratings — published 1995
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.91 — 464 ratings — published 1987
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,806 ratings — published 2002
Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.28 — 57 ratings — published 2001
Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2011
Making Prehistory: Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2007
Undue Risk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.69 — 61 ratings — published 1999
Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2003
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.04 — 344 ratings — published 1983
Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.67 — 58 ratings — published 2013
World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.83 — 46 ratings — published 2005
The Individual In A Social World: Essays and Experiments (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.33 — 61 ratings — published 1977
Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.08 — 26 ratings — published 2011
Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (Control of Nature)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.51 — 57 ratings — published 1995
Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.58 — 45 ratings — published 1994
Reflections on Gender and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.83 — 144 ratings — published 1985
Trust in Numbers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.86 — 143 ratings — published 1995
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.06 — 233 ratings — published 1989
Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.74 — 337 ratings — published 2012
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.99 — 529 ratings — published 1985
Science and Government (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.78 — 51 ratings — published 1961
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America, With a New Preface by the Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.81 — 43 ratings — published 1977
British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 2004
The Rise of Nuclear Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.93 — 56 ratings — published 2012
Newton: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published 1995
Science and Religon in the Era if William James (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1995
Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published 2000
The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.90 — 61 ratings — published 1997
The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2006
The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.69 — 135 ratings — published 2007
Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.92 — 216 ratings — published 1999
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historyofscience)
avg rating 3.88 — 179 ratings — published 1983





