History of Astronomy/Famous Scientists Book List

Lunar Men   Uglow, Jenny    Faber     0571216102    609.22

Faraday, The Life   Hamilton, James  HarperCollins   0002570823     530.092

On Giants’ Shoulders   Bragg, Melvyn    Sceptre   0340712600     509.22

A Short History
Of Nearly Everything   Bryson, Bill   Black Swan    0552997048    509

Almost Everyone’s
Guide to Science      Gribbin, John    Phoenix   0753807696 500

Science, A History    Gribbin, John    Penguin   0140297413 509

The Fellowship     Gribbin, John   Allen Lane    0713997451 506.09

Newton’s Apple  Aughton, Peter  Weidenfeld   0297843214 509.2

The Magic Furnace  Chown, Marcus  Vintage   0099578018 523.019

The Man who knew   Inwood, Stephen    Macmillan   0333782860 509.2
Too much

The Curies     Brian, Denis    Wiley    0471273910 CUR

The Ascent of Science     Silver, Brian    OUP    0195116992 509

Curious Life of        Jardine, Lisa       Harper Collins    0007149441 509.2
Robert Hooke                                   

Isaac Newton    Gleick, James   Fourth Estate     0007163177 509.2

Endeavour, the story     Aughton, Peter    Cassell     0304362360 
of Captain Cook’s
First Great Voyage

Fitzroy, The Remarkable Story of     Gribbin, John    Review   
Darwin’s Captain

Quantum    Kumar, Manjit   Icon   1848310293
Einstein,Bohr

Einstein, A Life in Science  White, Michael   Simon & Schuster 

Newton   Ackroyd, Peter  Chatto   0701169869

The Fly in the    Cathcart, Brian   Viking   0670883212
Cathedral

Humphry Davy   Lamont-Brown, R  Sutton 

Newton and           Levenson, Thomas    Faber 
the Counterfeiter

Degrees Kelvin    Lindley. David   Aurum 

Edmund Halley            Cook, Alan   Oxford  
Charting the Heavens
and the Seas

Science and Islam        Ehsan, Masood   Icon 
                                   9781848310810    297.265