29 Best

History Of Science Books

1

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

3

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

4

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

5

When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

6

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

7

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

8

Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

9

The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos

10

The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It

11

What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge

12

The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

13

The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

14

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

15

Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

16

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

17

A Short History of Nearly Everything

18

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

19

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

20

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

21

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

22

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

23

The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors

24

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

25

The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450

26

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

27

The Invention of Science: The Scientific Revolution from 1500 to 1750

28

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World