History Of Science

Updated 2 months ago
87 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time Dava Sobel	4.05	124 reads
#3	Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World Adrienne Mayor	4.33	3 reads
#4	Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America David E. Bernstein	0	0 reads
#5	Fatal Invention Dorothy Roberts	4.75	6 reads
#6	Video Games Have Always Been Queer Bonnie Ruberg	0	1 read
#7	Man's Most Dangerous Myth Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race Ashley Montagu	0	0 reads
#8	Superior: The Return of Race Science Angela Saini	4.58	17 reads
#9	The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine Thomas Morris	3.33	3 reads
#10	Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants James Vincent	5	1 read
#11	Rosalind Franklin : The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox	4	4 reads
#12	The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery Sam Kean	4.05	27 reads
#13	Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass Frank Close	4	2 reads
#14	As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age Matthew Cobb	3	1 read
#15	Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience Stephen Sagar	3	1 read
#16	The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Govert Schilling	0	0 reads
#17	The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number Mario Livio	3.54	15 reads
#18	Birth Tina Cassidy	4	1 read
#19	The Invention of Air Steven Johnson	5	1 read
#20	Fermat's last theorem Simon Singh John Lynch, scénariste	4.08	77 reads
#21	Breathless David Quammen	4.63	6 reads
#22	The Knife Man Wendy Moore	4.67	3 reads
#23	A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks Clifford D. Conner	0	0 reads
#24	The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York Deborah Blum	4.05	50 reads
#25	A Monk and Two Peas : The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics Robin Marantz Henig	0	0 reads
#26	Plastic Fantastic Eugenie Samuel Reich	0	0 reads
#27	Napoleon's Buttons Penny Le Couteur Jay Burreson	3.5	3 reads
#28	A Guinea Pig's History of Biology A Guinea Pig's History of Biology Jim Endersby	0	1 read
#29	Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity Bob Ostertag	0	0 reads
#30	Obsessive Genius Barbara Goldsmith	4	3 reads
#31	The Man Who Touched His Own Heart The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery Rob Dunn	3	1 read
#32	Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Lulu Miller	4.04	135 reads
#33	The Matter of Everything The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World Suzie Sheehy	5	1 read
#34	Anaximander: And the Birth of Science Carlo Rovelli Marion Lignana Rosenberg (Translator)	3	2 reads
#35	The Biggest Ideas in the Universe Sean Carroll	4	7 reads
#36	A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong Becky Smethurst	4.5	17 reads
#37	There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness Carlo Rovelli Erica Segre (Translator) Simon Carnell (Translator)	2	2 reads
#38	The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America G.J. Barker-Benfield	0	0 reads
#39	Gentlemen's Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men Peter Hegarty	0	0 reads
#40	Strange Glow Timothy J. Jorgensen	0	0 reads
#41	Tesla Margaret Cheney	3.33	10 reads
#42	The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes Mari Ruti	0	0 reads
#43	The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science Londa Schiebinger	0	0 reads
#44	From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America Kimberly A. Hamlin	0	0 reads
#45	The Alchemy of Us Ainissa Ramirez	3.5	7 reads
#46	Dark Energy Dark Energy: From Einstein’s Biggest Blunder to the Holographic Universe Shan Gao	0	0 reads
#47	The Holographic Universe Michael Talbot	4.14	11 reads
#48	The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Sam Kean	3.7	30 reads
#49	The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Sam Kean	3.96	83 reads
#50	Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality Manjit Kumar	4	2 reads
#51	Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World Jill Jonnes	4	7 reads
#52	How We Got to Now Steven Johnson	3.91	26 reads
#53	The Clockwork Universe Edward Dolnick	3.39	11 reads
#54	Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel	3.53	25 reads
#55	Cranioklepty Colin Dickey	0	0 reads
#56	The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe Victor E. Thoren	0	0 reads
#57	The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World Ken Alder	4	4 reads
#58	Operation Paperclip Annie Jacobsen	4.24	27 reads
#59	Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography Rebecca M. Jordan-Young Katrina Karkazis	0	1 read
#60	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character Richard P. Feynman Микола Климчук (Translator)	4.3	339 reads
#61	Gory Details Erika Engelhaupt	4.23	12 reads
#62	God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History Stephen Hawking	4.5	4 reads
#63	Madame Curie Ève Curie	5	4 reads
#64	Einstein: His Life and Universe Walter Isaacson	4.02	75 reads
#65	The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography Simon Singh	4.17	107 reads
#66	The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Paul Hoffman	4.28	19 reads
#67	In Pursuit of the Unknown Ian Stewart	3.5	7 reads
#68	Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity Fred Hogge	0	1 read
#69	The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor Ken Silverstein	3	1 read
#70	The Idea of the Brain Matthew Cobb	5	2 reads
#71	The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman Richard P. Feynman	3.68	38 reads
#72	The Things We Make The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans Bill Hammack	0	0 reads
#73	The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast Andrew Blum	4.17	9 reads
#74	The Chemical Age The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth Frank von Hippel	5	1 read
#75	A People’s History of Computing in the United States Joy Lisi Rankin	0	0 reads
#76	No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli Charles P. Enz	0	1 read
#77	The Glass Universe Dava Sobel	4	4 reads
#78	Hedy's Folly Richard Rhodes	2.75	5 reads
#79	Timekeepers Simon Garfield	3	6 reads
#80	Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep Kenneth Miller	4	1 read
#81	Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science Religion Nicholas Spencer	0	0 reads
#82	Empire of the Sum Keith Houston	4	3 reads
#83	The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump Clifford D. Conner	4	1 read
#84	Brilliant Jane Brox	0	0 reads
#85	Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids Kimberly Brown Pellum	0	0 reads
#86	The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science Michael Strevens	1	2 reads
#87	Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race Ellen Samuels	0	0 reads
#88	The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans Laura Trethewey	4	1 read