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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,011 ratings — published 2003
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 52 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,297 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,216,101 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,390 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,400 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,328 ratings — published 1962
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 447,880 ratings — published 1997
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,854 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,027 ratings — published 1986
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 469,981 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,616 ratings — published 1859
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,449 ratings — published 2006
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,432 ratings — published 2016
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,411 ratings — published 1980
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 30,176 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 111,903 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,157 ratings — published 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,813 ratings — published 2015
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,631 ratings — published 2010
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 201,560 ratings — published 2017
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 214,456 ratings — published 1985
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 192,395 ratings — published 2014
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,947 ratings — published 2011
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,230 ratings — published 2002
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,994 ratings — published 2001
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 178,761 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,917 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,351 ratings — published 1999
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,651 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 78,892 ratings — published 1995
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,617 ratings — published 1999
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,006 ratings — published 1994
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 77,816 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,899 ratings — published 1976
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,170 ratings — published 2015
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,678 ratings — published 2003
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,097 ratings — published 1991
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,603 ratings — published 2012
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,421 ratings — published 1987
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,890 ratings — published 2018
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 894 ratings — published 2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,632 ratings — published 2013
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,903 ratings — published 2011
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,237 ratings — published 2019
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,543 ratings — published 2014
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 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 726 ratings — published 1992
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,670 ratings — published 2012
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,585 ratings — published 2003
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,402 ratings — published 1991
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,022 ratings — published 2018
“..it may be comforting to recall that detailed longitudinal analysis of the behavior of a single solar system was the foundation stone for Kepler's laws, and ultimately Newton's.”
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“The early years of statistical development were dominated by men. Many women were working in the field, but they were almost all employed in doing the detailed calculations needed for statistical analysis, and were indeed called "computers".”
― The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
― The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
