Reading the Sciences - hosted by tashshaw

A book about the history of science
E.g. the discovery of the elements, a biography of a well-known scientist
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr

Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space

Lynn Sherr

374 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring slow-paced
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

Great Discoveries

George Johnson

176 pages • 2005

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
Stolen Science by Ella Schwartz

Stolen Science

Ella Schwartz

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nonfiction childrens history nature science
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

Simon Garfield

464 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction history nature travel adventurous funny informative slow-paced
My Brief History by Stephen Hawking

My Brief History

Stephen Hawking

127 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction autobiography science informative inspiring fast-paced
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

Richard Fortey

400 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction history science adventurous informative slow-paced
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn by Louisa Gilder

The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn

Louisa Gilder

464 pages • 2008

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

Andrea Wulf

496 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction biography history nature science adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science by Paul R. Josephson

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn

Paul R. Josephson

320 pages • hardcover

nonfiction biography history science technology informative medium-paced
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World by Catherine Whitlock

Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World

Catherine Whitlock

288 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced