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Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:03 pm ] |
Post subject: | Discover Magazine's 25 Greatest Science Books Ever |
This list was compile by the editors of Discover Magazine, and published in this month's issue (Nov. 2006). Here we go (the typos are mine, not the magazines): 1 & 2 (TIE). The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin 3. Philosophlae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) (1687) by Isaac Newton 4. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632) by Galileo Galilei 5. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus 5. Physics (about 330 BC) by Aristotle 7. On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543) by Andreas Vesalius 8. Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) by Albert Einstein 9. The Selfish Gene (1976)by Richard Dawkins 10. One, Two, Three...Infinity (1947) by George Gamow 11. The Double Helix (1968) by James D. Watson 12. What is Life? (1944) by Erwin Schrodinger 13. The Cosmic Connection (1973) by Carl Sagan 14. The Insect Societies (1971) by Edward O. Wilson 15. The First Three Minutes (1977) by Steven Weinberg 16. Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson 17. The Mismeasure of Man (1981) by Stepehn Jay Gould 18. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985) by Oliver Sacks 19. The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1914) by Meriweather Lewis and William Clark 20. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1963) by Richrd P. Feynman 21. Sexual Behaviors in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred C. Kinsey et al 22. Gorillas in the Mist by (1983) Dian Fossey 23. Under a Lucky Star (1943) by Roy Chapman Andews 24. Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke 25. Gaia (1979) by James Lovelock Honorable Mentions: 1. Interpretations of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud 2. The Lives of a Cell (1974) by Lewsi Thomas 3. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James 4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas S. Khun 5. A Brief History of Time (1988) by Stephen Hawking 6. Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) by Jared Diamond 7. The Elegant Universe (1999) by Brian Greene 8. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) by Richard Rhodes ****************************************************** Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell <i></i> |
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