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
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