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

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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit. Wahr, falsch, plausibel? Die größten Streitfragen wissenschaftlich geprüft

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity

On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe

A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery

A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks

Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix

Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World

Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science

Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation

What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo

The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth

The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter

The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates

The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)

Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics

Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

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Quotes Tagged “History Of Science”

“ Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Instead, I ask, After evolution was discovered, how did religion and society respond? After cities were electrified, how did daily life change? After the airplane could fly from one country to another, how did commerce or warfa ...more ”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“ The water beneath the Temple was both actual and metaphorical, existing as springs and streams, as spiritual energy, and as a symbol of the receptive or lunar aspect of nature. The meaning of that principle is too wide and elusive for it to be given any one name, so in the terminology of ancient science it was given a number, 1,080. Its polar opposite, the positive, solar force in the universe, was also referred to as a number 666. These two numbers, which have an approximate golden-section ...more ”
― John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth

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