Books+for+review

An evolving list...


 * Back in the Time**

//Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle//, G. E. R. Lloyd, Norton, N.Y., 1970.


 * The Scientific Revolution**

Mario Biagioli, //Galileo Courtier//. Steven Shapin, //The Scientific Revolution// Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, //Leviathan and the Air Pump// Lisa Jardine, //Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution//

Friedrich Nietzsche, //The Gay Science// Ian Hacking, //The Taming of Chance// //Laura J. Snyder, The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World//
 * Random 19th Century Stuff**


 * Maths**

Brian Rotman, //Ad Infinitum…The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In: An Essay in Corporeal Semiotics// Douglas Hofstadter, //Gödel, Escher, Bach//

William Newman, //Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature// William Newman**,** //Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution//
 * Chemistry**


 * Physics**

Peter Galison, //Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps// Sharon Traweek, //Beamtimes and Lifetimes//


 * The Big One**

Richard Rhodes, //The Making of the Atomic Bomb// Richard Rhodes, //Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb// William Lanouette, //Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard// Silvan S. Schweber, //In the Shadow of the Bomb//


 * Darwin, Creationism, ID**

James Moore and Adrian Desmond, //Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist// Edward Larson, //Summer for the Gods// Edward Larson, //Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory//


 * Philosophies**

Thomas Kuhn, //The Structure of Scientific Revolutions// Ludwik Fleck, //Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact// Mike Fortun and Herbert J. Bernstein, //Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths on the 21st Century//


 * Women and Science**

Londa Schiebinger, //The Mind Has No Sex?// Evelyn Fox Keller, //Essays on Gender and Science// Brenda Maddox, //Rosalind Franklin//


 * Life Sciences**

Francois Jacob, //The Logic of Life// Gerald Edelman, //Bright Air, Brilliant Fire//


 * Novels**

Russell McCormach, //Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist// Richard Powers, //The Gold Bug Variations//