Tuesday, February 27, 2007

25 Greatest Science Books of All Time

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1.
and 2. The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin [tie]


3. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton (1687)


4. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (1632)


5. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)


6. Physica (Physics) by Aristotle (circa 330 B.C.)


7. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius (1543)


8. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916)


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9. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)

10. One Two Three . . . Infinity by George Gamow (1947)


11. The Double Helix by James D. Watson (1968)

12. What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944)

13. The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan (1973)


14. The Insect Societies by Edward O. Wilson (1971)

15. The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg (1977)

16. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

17. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (1981)


18. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1985)
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19. The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814)


20. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by* Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1963)



21. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey et al. (1948)


22. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey (1983)


23. Under a Lucky Star by Roy Chapman Andrews (1943)

24. Micrographia by Robert Hooke (1665)


25. Gaia by James Lovelock (1979)


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