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Non-fiction in History of Science

6 wonderful books about History of Science.

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The Age of Wonder

How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books

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4.4 | (782 reviews)
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Chaos

James Gleick

‘An awe-inspiring book. Reading Chaos gave me the sensation that someone had just found the light-switch’ - Douglas Adams

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4.6 | (3,064 reviews)
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Black Holes and Time Warps

Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Kip S Thorne

From the Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

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4.7 | (779 reviews)
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One, Two, Three... Infinity

Facts and Speculations of Science

George Gamow

A mind-expanding volume for the layman and the science-minded

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4.6 | (625 reviews)
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The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

A translation of Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" - based on the original text published in 1899

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4.6 | (746 reviews)

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