33 Greatest Science Books of All Time

Name the 33 greatest science books written of all time.

In 2006 Discover Magazine created a list of the 25 greatest science books written, with 8 honorable mentions.

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Hint	Answer
1	The Voyage of the Beagle	Charles Darwin
2	The Origin of Species	Charles Darwin
3	Mathematic Principles of Natural Philosophy	Isaac Newton
4	Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems	Galileo Galilei
5	On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres	Nicolaus Copernicus
6	Physica	Aristotle
7	De Humani Corporis Fabrica	Andreas Vesalius
8	Relativity	Albert Einstein
9	The Selfish Gene	Richard Dawkins
10	One, Two, Three...Infinity	George Gamow
11	The Double Helix	James D. Watson
12	What is Life?	Erwin Schrodinger
13	The Cosmic Connection	Carl Sagan
14	The Insect Societies	Edward O. Wilson
15	The First Three Minutes	Steven Weinberg
16	Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
17	The Mismeasure of Man	Stephen Jay Gould

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18	The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat	Oliver Sacks
19	The Journals of Lewis and Clark	Meriwether Lewis
20	The Feynman Lectures	Richard P. Feynman
21	Sexual Behavior in the Human Male	Charles Kinsey
22	Gorillas in the Mist	Dian Fossey
23	Under a Lucky Star	Roy Chapman Andrews
24	Micrographia	Robert Hooke
25	Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth	James Lovelock
26	The Interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud
27	Lives of a Cell: Notes from a Biology Watcher	Lewis Thomas
28	The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James
29	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Thomas S. Kuhn
30	A Brief History of Time	Stephen W. Hawking
31	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society	Jared Diamond
32	The Elegant Universe	Brian Greene
33	The Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes

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