25 Greatest Science Books of All Time

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Discover Magazine's 25 Greatest Science Books of All Time (and 8 Honorable Mentions)
1
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
14,407 members
120 reviews
4.1
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2
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
6,552 members
98 reviews
4
2 Members
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3
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
11,597 members
209 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
1,049 members
15 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
8,099 members
92 reviews
4
2 Members
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
25,054 members
376 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
by Nicolaus Copernicus
448 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
5,349 members
50 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
5,215 members
36 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by Alfred C. Kinsey
317 members
3 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
6,818 members
99 reviews
4
2 Members
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12
The Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin
3,075 members
25 reviews
4
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13
Principia Mathematica
by Isaac Newton
1,307 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
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14
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
by Galileo Galilei
536 members
7 reviews
4
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15
Physics
by Aristotle
802 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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16
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
by Andreas Vesalius
14 members
1 review
4
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17
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
by Albert Einstein
4,454 members
33 reviews
3.9
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18
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
10,852 members
119 reviews
½ 4.3
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19
One Two Three . . . Infinity
by George Gamow
1,093 members
15 reviews
4
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20
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
3,035 members
44 reviews
3.8
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21
What Is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
by Erwin Schrödinger
307 members
3 reviews
4
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22
The Cosmic Connection
by Carl Sagan
1,012 members
10 reviews
4.1
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23
The Insect Societies
by Edward O. Wilson
140 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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24
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg
1,355 members
13 reviews
3.8
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25
The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
1,423 members
14 reviews
4.1
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26
The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, 1953}
by Meriwether Lewis
1,201 members
8 reviews
4
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27
The Feynman lectures on physics [3-volume set]
by Richard Feynman
1,449 members
11 reviews
½ 4.5
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28
Under a Lucky Star
by Roy Chapman Andrews
81 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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29
Micrographia
by Robert Hooke
152 members
2 reviews
4.9
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30
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
by James E. Lovelock
950 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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31
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
2,073 members
31 reviews
4.1
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33
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
3,540 members
54 reviews
½ 4.5
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