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Discover Magazine's "Best Science Books"

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

(found at: http://discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/25-greatest-science-books/)
1. The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Darwin
  
2. The Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
  
3. The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
by Isaac Newton
  
4.
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 Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems
by Galileo Galilei
  
5. On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
by Nicolaus Copernicus
  
6. Physica (Oxford Classical Texts Ser)
by Aristotle
  
7. De Humani Corporis Fabrica
by Andreas Vesalius
  
8. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein
  
9. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
by Richard Dawkins
  
10. One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by George Gamow
  
11. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
  
12. What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto)
by Erwin Schrodinger
  
13. Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
by Carl Sagan
  
14.
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 The Insect Societies (Belknap Press)
by Edward O. Wilson
  
15. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by Steven Weinberg
  
16. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
17. The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen, Jay Gould
  
18. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
  
19. The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
by Meriwether Lewis
  
20. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Three Volume Set
by Richard P. Feynman
  
21. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by Alfred Charles Kinsey
  
22. Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
  
23.
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 Under a lucky star,: A lifetime of adventure
by Roy Chapman Andrews
  
24. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
by Robert Hooke
  
25. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
by James Lovelock
  
26. The Interpretation Of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
  
27. Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
  
28. The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
  
29. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
  
30. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen W Hawking
  
31. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
32. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
  
33. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
  
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Created by Sumit on Nov 27, 2006.