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.

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Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Helge Kragh
Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure. ...more
Helge Kragh, Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925

James Gleick
Feynman resented the polished myths of most scientific history, submerging the false steps and halting uncertainties under a surface of orderly intellectual progress, but he created a myth of his own. ...more
James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

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