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25 Greatest Science Books of All Time.

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DISCOVER presents the essential reading list for anyone interested in science by the editors of DISCOVER magazine.

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1. and 2. The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin [tie]
3. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton (1687)
4. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (1632)
5. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
6. Physica (Physics) by Aristotle (circa 330 B.C.)
7. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius (1543) Not available.
8. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916)
9. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)
10. One Two Three . . . Infinity by George Gamow (1947)
11. The Double Helix by James D. Watson (1968)
12. What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944)
13. The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan (1973)
14. The Insect Societies by Edward O. Wilson (1971). Not available.
15. The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg (1977)
16. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
17. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (1981)
18. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1985)
19. The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814)
20. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by* Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1963)
21. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey et al. (1948). Not available.
22. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey (1983). Not available.
23. Under a Lucky Star by Roy Chapman Andrews (1943)
24. Micrographia by Robert Hooke (1665)
25. Gaia by James Lovelock (1979)

Honorable Mentions (6 from 8).

1. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (1900). 
2. The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas (1974). Not available.
3. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902).
4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962).
5. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988).
6. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1997).
7. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (1999).
8. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1986). Not available.