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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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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
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
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
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CaptainHumanLogic
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Oct 27, 2016
I entered the origins of species and it counted it wrong
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