Discover Magazine's "Best Science Books"

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<a href="http://discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/25-greatest-science-books/">Compiled by the editors of <i>Discover</i> magazine.

  1. 2.
    The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Charles Darwin

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    Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems
    by Galileo Galilei

  4. 5.
    On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
    by Nicolaus Copernicus

  5. 6.
    Physica (Oxford Classical Texts Ser)
    by Aristotle

  6. 7.
    De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Latin Edition)
    by Andreas Vesalius

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  9. 12.
    What Is Life?: with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographical Sketches"
    by Erwin Schrödinger

  10. 14.
    The Insect Societies (Belknap Press)
    by Edward O. Wilson

  11. 16.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

  12. 17.
    The Mismeasure of Man
    by Stephen, Jay Gould

  13. 19.
    The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
    by Meriwether Lewis

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  15. 21.
    Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
    by Alfred C. Kinsey

  16. 22.
    Gorillas in the Mist
    by Dian Fossey Dr.

  17. 23.
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    Under a lucky star,: A lifetime of adventure
    by Roy Chapman Andrews

  18. 25.
    Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
    by James Lovelock

  19. 26.
    The Interpretation Of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

  20. 27.
    Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
    by Lewis Thomas

  21. 28.
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James

  22. 29.
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn

  23. 30.
    A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    by Stephen W. Hawking

  24. 31.
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    by Jared Diamond

  25. 33.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

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Created by Sumit on Nov 27, 2006.
 

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