History of Science
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African-American Inventions That Changed The World: Influential Inventors and Their Revolutionary Creations 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
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Frank Close
4.02 avg rating — 673 ratings 203. 
Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
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David Garfinkle
3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings 203. 
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus
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Owen Gingerich
3.78 avg rating — 613 ratings 
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The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
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Mike Jay
4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings 203. 
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
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Walter Lewin
4.25 avg rating — 4,033 ratings 203. 
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
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Roy Porter
4.04 avg rating — 842 ratings 203. 
Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
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A.W. Bates
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 203. 
Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century
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Margaret Alic
3.90 avg rating — 86 ratings 203. 
The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research
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Derek Freeman
3.09 avg rating — 43 ratings 203. 
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
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Philip Ball
3.90 avg rating — 259 ratings 203. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings 
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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Richard Fortey
3.73 avg rating — 1,474 ratings 215. 
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
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James Mahaffey
4.15 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World 3.87 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The History of Science from the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution
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Ray Spangenburg
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 
215. 
A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility
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Andrew Ede
3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings 215. 
Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
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Steven Gimbel
4.21 avg rating — 694 ratings 215. 
The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
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Tom Standage
4.08 avg rating — 179 ratings 215. 
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
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Beau Donelly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,319 ratings 215. 
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
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Henry Gee
3.75 avg rating — 204 ratings 215. 
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
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Lydia Reeder
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,402 ratings 229. 
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity 4.02 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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Timothy Brook
3.85 avg rating — 2,592 ratings 229. 
The Worlds of Giordano Bruno: The Man Galileo Plagiarized
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Alan W. Powers
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 229. 
The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
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Reviel Netz
3.90 avg rating — 707 ratings 229. 
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings 229. 
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes - The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists 3.91 avg rating — 499 ratings
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Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 2 - The Power of Place
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Janet Browne
4.29 avg rating — 737 ratings 235. 
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century 3.91 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy
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David Lindley
3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings 235. 
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by:
Kim Todd
3.88 avg rating — 444 ratings 
235. 
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.93 avg rating — 647 ratings 235. 
Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
by:
Derek Cheung
4.18 avg rating — 209 ratings 242. 
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The Möbius Strip: Dr. August Möbius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology 3.56 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
by:
Marvin Harris
3.77 avg rating — 140 ratings 249. 
Discussion avec le messager céleste: Rapport sur l observation des satellites de Jupiter.
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Johannes Kepler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 249. 
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
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Carlo Rovelli
4.33 avg rating — 15,941 ratings 
249. 
Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
by:
Iain McCalman
4.20 avg rating — 481 ratings 
253. 
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.15 avg rating — 8,228 ratings 253. 
The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal
by:
Lawrence LeShan
4.04 avg rating — 68 ratings 253. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 
261. 
Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists 3.81 avg rating — 100 ratings
261. 
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
by:
Amir D. Aczel
3.89 avg rating — 829 ratings 
261. 
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
by:
Thomas Hager
4.35 avg rating — 4,451 ratings 
261. 
Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
by:
David A. Kessler
3.40 avg rating — 634 ratings 261. 
Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 252 ratings
261. 
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
by:
Michael Brooks
3.75 avg rating — 6,124 ratings 261. 
Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science
by:
Steve Fuller
3.40 avg rating — 149 ratings 272. 
Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World
by:
Sue Shephard
3.71 avg rating — 203 ratings 272. 
Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
by:
Linda Simon
3.52 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
by:
John Dewey
3.99 avg rating — 179 ratings 
272. 
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by:
Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,394 ratings 272. 
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by:
Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,464 ratings 285. 
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life 3.94 avg rating — 5,194 ratings
285. 
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
by:
Stefano Mancuso
3.90 avg rating — 2,790 ratings 
285. 
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
by:
Nancy Forbes
4.27 avg rating — 1,764 ratings 285. 
The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
by:
Randall Fuller
3.61 avg rating — 527 ratings 285. 
Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon
by:
Jeff Hecht
3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings 
292. 
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by:
Douglas Starr
3.86 avg rating — 5,270 ratings 
292. 
Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
297. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 
297. 
Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
by:
Rob Wesson
4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings