 | Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg by David C. Cassidy
Buy used from: $20.58 Good intro to 20th century German science; best if read in conjunction with Sime's _Lise Meitner_
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 | Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (California Studies in the History of Science) by Ruth Lewin Sime
Buy new: $23.89 / Used from: $4.19 Read about the life of a Jewish female physicist in Nazi Germany -- a great treatment of an incredible woman
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 | On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Harvard Paperbacks) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $6.88 If you're going to read "Origin" you must read this facsimile of the 1st ed., brought to us by Ernst Mayr
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 | Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $7.41 Although not the only good bio of Darwin out right now, this is perhaps the most engaging. Desmond and Moore can be a little melodramatic, but that makes the reading all the more fun.
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 | Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life by Robert E. Kohler
Buy new: $27.63 / Used from: $13.21 A look at the people behind Drosophila genetics
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 | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Buy used from: $0.93 Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in History.
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 | This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World by Ernst Mayr
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $0.69 This is a down-to-earth treatment of the history of biology and the problems one faces when engaged in this study.
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 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $2.99 If you're going to read history of science you can't escape reading this one.
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 | Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging by Janet Browne
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $7.54 Okay, okay, so here's another Darwin bio.
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 | The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $14.99 This work, dating from 1966, explores the definitions of health and disease, normal and abnormal. A basic "must" for those interested in the history of medicine.
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 | Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Mario Biagioli
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $7.94 An interesting look at Galileo for advanced readers (!).
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 | The Life of Isaac Newton (Canto original series) by Richard S. Westfall
Buy new: $22.22 / Used from: $8.95 This is an abridged version of Westfall's work "Never at Rest." The best on Newton.
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 | The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $2.00 Merchant connects the subjugation of women and destruction of nature -- a very important work.
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 | Linnaeus: Nature and Nation by Lisbet Koerner
Buy used from: $12.51 A new look at an old name -- not what you learned in bio class -- much more interesting!
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 | God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science
Buy new: $26.28 / Used from: $14.81 Some essays by the best.
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