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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 — 29,322 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 — 75,392 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 414,960 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 — 9,851 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 — 28,801 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,275 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 — 55,287 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 — 5,947 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 — 726 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 — 55,442 ratings — published 2006
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,024 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 — 30,176 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 — 523 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 — 893 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 198,764 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 — 19,827 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 — 13,993 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 — 111,874 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 — 2,169 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 — 36,631 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,415 ratings — published 2016
The Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.63 — 657 ratings — published 1996
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,602 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 — 2,116 ratings — published 2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,901 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 — 56,226 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 4.13 — 860 ratings — published 1957
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,938 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 3.59 — 3,488 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 — 4,168 ratings — published 2005
Objectivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 409 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 — 10,398 ratings — published 2007
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 469,898 ratings — published 1988
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 — 11,791 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 — 1,480 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 — 1,061 ratings — published 2009
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,954 ratings — published 2012
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,314 ratings — published 1839
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 323 ratings — published 1999
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 — 1,487 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 — 214,417 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 — 1,202 ratings — published 1959
Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,505 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 — 7,426 ratings — published 2009
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,392 ratings — published 1980
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as history-of-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,243 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 — 28,613 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 — 21,817 ratings — published 2017
“The first physicist to stress the all-encompassing role of [the fine-structure constant] and [the proton/electron mass ratio] in determining the inevitable structure of atomic systems seems to have been Max Born.”
― The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
― The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
“As Sommerfeld said in his famous text "Spectral Lines and Atomic Constitution," on which a generation of physicists learned the subject, "In the fine structure constant e is the representative of the electron theory, h the appropriate representative of the quantum theory, c comes from relativity and characterizes it in contrast to classical theory.”
― From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries
― From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries
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