History Of Science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences.

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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit. Wahr, falsch, plausibel? Die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Get Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeePandora's Lab by Paul A. OffitSpare Parts by Paul Craddock
Best Science History Books
89 books — 49 voters
The Greeks and the Irrational by E.R. DoddsMagic, Science and Religion and Other Essays by Bronisław MalinowskiAsclepius by Emma J. EdelsteinStolen Lightning by OKEEFE,Arcana Mundi by Georg Luck
Forbidden Histories
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Modern Science Nonfiction
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Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Living Medicine by Lina ZeldovichThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAnd the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Books for the time of Pandemics
138 books — 37 voters
Early Man and the Ocean by Thor HeyerdahlPreparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin FrankCook  by Nicholas ThomasExploring the Deep by Michael WelhamAdventures in Ocean Exploration  by Robert D. Ballard
Ocean Exploration
54 books — 9 voters


Sheldon L. Glashow
True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does not satisfy the physicists naive faith in elegance and simplicity. It involves some 17 allegedly fundamental particles and the same number of arbitrary and tunable parameters, such as the fine-structure constants, the muon-electron mass ratio and the various mysterious mixing angles.
Sheldon L. Glashow, Charm of Physics: Collected Essays of Sheldon Glashow

Helge Kragh
Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure. ...more
Helge Kragh, Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925

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