History Of Science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences.

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit. Wahr, falsch, plausibel? Die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
The Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyNever Call Retreat by Bruce CattonCarthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
Serious History Books
36 books — 3 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoOn Becoming an Alchemist by Catherine MacCounAlchemy & Mysticism by Alexander RoobA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićThe Modern Alchemist by Iona Miller
Books of Alchemy
101 books — 87 voters



Ananyo Bhattacharya
Von Neumann’s remarkable foresight is evident in letters he wrote to Ortvay between 1928 and 1939. ‘There will be a war in Europe in the next decade,’ he told the Hungarian physicist in 1935, further predicting that America would enter the war ‘if England is in trouble’. He feared that during that war, European Jews would suffer a genocide as the Armenians had under the Ottoman Empire. In 1940, he predicted that Britain would be able to hold a German invasion at bay (far from obvious at the time ...more
Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

J. Warner Wallace
Jesus matters to the sciences. The history of scientific exploration was forever changed as Jesus followers studied the 'book of nature.' Christians are the 'fathers' and founders of these disciplines...Jesus followers didn't simply contribute to the sciences, they founded and led the sciences. ...more
J. Warner Wallace, Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible

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