과학사

역사를 통틀어 위대한 지성들은 우리 우주의 가장 깊은 신비와 씨름하며 돌파구, 실수, 그리고 '유레카' 순간들의 매혹적인 흔적을 남겼습니다. 이 책들은 고대 천문학자들이 별을 추적하던 시절부터 현대 실험실이 원자와 유전자의 비밀을 밝히는 과정까지, 자연의 법칙을 이해하려는 인류의 위대한 탐구를 기록합니다.

과학사 도서 요약

What Is This Thing Called Science?

저자: Alan F. Chalmers • 1976

Induction, falsification, paradigms: every answer to how science works gets built, then wrecked.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🔬 Sociology Of Science 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🐔 Induction Problem ❌ Falsificationism

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What Is This Thing Called Science?

Induction, falsification, paradigms: every answer to how science works gets built, then wrecked.

저자: Alan F. Chalmers 1976 266 페이지

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🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🔬 Sociology Of Science 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🐔 Induction Problem ❌ Falsificationism

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

저자: Nancy Forbes • 2014

How an uneducated bookbinder and a Scottish genius proved light, electricity, and magnetism are one.

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⚡ Electromagnetism 📜 History Of Physics 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography 🌐 Field Theory 🧪 Experimental Physics

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

How an uneducated bookbinder and a Scottish genius proved light, electricity, and magnetism are one.

저자: Nancy Forbes 2014 328 페이지

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⚡ Electromagnetism 📜 History Of Physics 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography 🌐 Field Theory 🧪 Experimental Physics

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

저자: Thomas S. Kuhn • 1962

The textbook story of science is a myth: progress happens through upheavals that redefine reality.

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🔭 Philosophy Of Science 📜 History Of Science 🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🧪 Science Studies

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The textbook story of science is a myth: progress happens through upheavals that redefine reality.

저자: Thomas S. Kuhn 1962 226 페이지

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🔭 Philosophy Of Science 📜 History Of Science 🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🧪 Science Studies

A Little History of Science

저자: William Bynum • 2012

Science is a chain of curiosity and accident, from Babylonian stargazers to the decoding of DNA.

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🔬 History Of Science 🚀 Popular Science 🌍 Sweeping History 💡 Intellectual History 🔍 Discovery Narratives

A Little History of Science

Science is a chain of curiosity and accident, from Babylonian stargazers to the decoding of DNA.

저자: William Bynum 2012 263 페이지

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🔬 History Of Science 🚀 Popular Science 🌍 Sweeping History 💡 Intellectual History 🔍 Discovery Narratives

Men of Mathematics

저자: Eric Temple Bell • 1937

From Descartes to Cantor, the story of mathematics is one of obsession and early graves.

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📐 History Of Mathematics 📖 Mathematical Biography 🧮 Popular Mathematics 🧠 Scientific Genius 🎭 Drama Of Discovery

Men of Mathematics

From Descartes to Cantor, the story of mathematics is one of obsession and early graves.

저자: Eric Temple Bell 1937 590 페이지

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📐 History Of Mathematics 📖 Mathematical Biography 🧮 Popular Mathematics 🧠 Scientific Genius 🎭 Drama Of Discovery

The Polymath

저자: Peter Burke • 2020

From Leonardo to the web: how polymaths weathered information overloads, and why we need them again.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🔬 Polymathy 🎨 Renaissance Humanism 🕯️ Enlightenment 🔭 History Of Science

The Polymath

From Leonardo to the web: how polymaths weathered information overloads, and why we need them again.

저자: Peter Burke 2020 352 페이지

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🧠 Intellectual History 🔬 Polymathy 🎨 Renaissance Humanism 🕯️ Enlightenment 🔭 History Of Science

Fermat's Enigma

저자: Simon Singh • 1998

150 years, countless geniuses, one unproven hunch about primes, and a million dollars waiting.

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🔢 Prime Numbers 📜 History Of Mathematics ❓ Unsolved Problems 🏔️ Mathematical Quests 🔐 Cryptography

Fermat's Enigma

150 years, countless geniuses, one unproven hunch about primes, and a million dollars waiting.

저자: Simon Singh 1998 315 페이지

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🔢 Prime Numbers 📜 History Of Mathematics ❓ Unsolved Problems 🏔️ Mathematical Quests 🔐 Cryptography

How the Hippies Saved Physics

저자: David Kaiser • 2011

With mysticism and est funding, a Berkeley group revived entanglement, seeding quantum computing.

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🏛️ History Of Physics ⚛️ Quantum Foundations 🔬 Sociology Of Science 🧘 Quantum Mysticism 🌿 Fringe Science

How the Hippies Saved Physics

With mysticism and est funding, a Berkeley group revived entanglement, seeding quantum computing.

저자: David Kaiser 2011 400 페이지

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🏛️ History Of Physics ⚛️ Quantum Foundations 🔬 Sociology Of Science 🧘 Quantum Mysticism 🌿 Fringe Science

The Golem (Canto Classics)

저자: Harry Collins • 1992

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

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🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

The Golem (Canto Classics)

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

저자: Harry Collins 1992 214 페이지

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🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

To Explain the World

저자: Steven Weinberg • 2015

What took two millennia: how humanity learned to test nature instead of just arguing about it.

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🔬 History Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🧪 Experimental Science 🌌 Cosmology 🤔 Philosophy Of Science

To Explain the World

What took two millennia: how humanity learned to test nature instead of just arguing about it.

저자: Steven Weinberg 2015 432 페이지

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🔬 History Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🧪 Experimental Science 🌌 Cosmology 🤔 Philosophy Of Science

Uncertainty

저자: David Lindley • 1996

You cannot measure everything. Einstein spent decades fighting that fact. What it cost him.

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🧪 Quantum Physics 📜 History Of Science 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History

Uncertainty

You cannot measure everything. Einstein spent decades fighting that fact. What it cost him.

저자: David Lindley 1996 272 페이지

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🧪 Quantum Physics 📜 History Of Science 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History

The Theory That Would Not Die

저자: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne • 2011

Statisticians said it was dead. Turing used it to crack Enigma. Computers made it unstoppable.

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🧮 Bayesian Statistics 📜 History Of Mathematics 🎲 Probability Theory ⚔️ Scientific Controversy 🔐 Codebreaking History

The Theory That Would Not Die

Statisticians said it was dead. Turing used it to crack Enigma. Computers made it unstoppable.

저자: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne 2011 336 페이지

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🧮 Bayesian Statistics 📜 History Of Mathematics 🎲 Probability Theory ⚔️ Scientific Controversy 🔐 Codebreaking History

The Day We Found the Universe

저자: Marcia Bartusiak • 2009

When the universe was just the Milky Way: the instruments and rivalries that found the rest.

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🔭 History Of Astronomy 🌌 Modern Cosmology 🔄 Paradigm Shifts 📡 Telescopic Astronomy ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry

The Day We Found the Universe

When the universe was just the Milky Way: the instruments and rivalries that found the rest.

저자: Marcia Bartusiak 2009 368 페이지

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🔭 History Of Astronomy 🌌 Modern Cosmology 🔄 Paradigm Shifts 📡 Telescopic Astronomy ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry

Pasteur's Quadrant

저자: Donald E. Stokes • 1997

The report that sold America on funding pure science: the engine of health, security, and growth.

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🧪 Science Policy 💰 Research Funding 🧬 Basic Research 🏛️ Government Science 🧑‍🔬 Scientific Workforce

Pasteur's Quadrant

The report that sold America on funding pure science: the engine of health, security, and growth.

저자: Donald E. Stokes 1997 199 페이지

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🧪 Science Policy 💰 Research Funding 🧬 Basic Research 🏛️ Government Science 🧑‍🔬 Scientific Workforce

Evolution's Captain

저자: Peter Nichols • 2003

He kidnapped four Fuegians to save them, gave Darwin his ship, and was destroyed by both.

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🚢 Naval Exploration 🔬 Victorian Science 📜 Biographical History ⚔️ Faith And Science 🌍 Cultural Collision

Evolution's Captain

He kidnapped four Fuegians to save them, gave Darwin his ship, and was destroyed by both.

저자: Peter Nichols 2003 336 페이지

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🚢 Naval Exploration 🔬 Victorian Science 📜 Biographical History ⚔️ Faith And Science 🌍 Cultural Collision

Eye of the Beholder

저자: Laura J. Snyder • 2015

Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek lived blocks apart, using lenses to show the world what it had never seen.

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🧀 Dutch Golden Age 🖼️ Dutch Painting 🎨 Art And Science 👁️ Optics And Vision 📷 Camera Obscura

Eye of the Beholder

Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek lived blocks apart, using lenses to show the world what it had never seen.

저자: Laura J. Snyder 2015 448 페이지

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🧀 Dutch Golden Age 🖼️ Dutch Painting 🎨 Art And Science 👁️ Optics And Vision 📷 Camera Obscura

Longitude

저자: Dava Sobel • 1995

Parliament offered millions for longitude. A clockmaker delivered. Astronomers moved the goalposts.

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⚓ Maritime History 🔬 History Of Science 🕰️ Clockmaking ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry 🧠 Lone Genius

Longitude

Parliament offered millions for longitude. A clockmaker delivered. Astronomers moved the goalposts.

저자: Dava Sobel 1995 184 페이지

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⚓ Maritime History 🔬 History Of Science 🕰️ Clockmaking ⚔️ Scientific Rivalry 🧠 Lone Genius

Vector

저자: Robyn Arianrhod • 2024

Your GPS and AI depend on a 19th-century algebra that broke the rules of arithmetic.

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🧮 History Of Mathematics ⚛️ Mathematical Physics 🔭 History Of Physics 📐 Geometric Thinking 🔄 Scientific Revolutions

Vector

Your GPS and AI depend on a 19th-century algebra that broke the rules of arithmetic.

저자: Robyn Arianrhod 2024 376 페이지

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🧮 History Of Mathematics ⚛️ Mathematical Physics 🔭 History Of Physics 📐 Geometric Thinking 🔄 Scientific Revolutions

The Great Math War

저자: Jason Socrates Bardi • 2025

A feud among mathematicians, a world war, and a proof that ended the search for certainty.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Math 📜 History Of Mathematics 🔢 Foundations Of Math 🔣 Incompleteness 🤔 Cognitive Biases

The Great Math War

A feud among mathematicians, a world war, and a proof that ended the search for certainty.

저자: Jason Socrates Bardi 2025 416 페이지

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🧠 Philosophy Of Math 📜 History Of Mathematics 🔢 Foundations Of Math 🔣 Incompleteness 🤔 Cognitive Biases

The First Scientist

저자: Carlo Rovelli • 2005

26 centuries ago, one man freed the Earth from its supports and nature from its gods.

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🏛️ Pre-Socratic Thought 🌌 Early Cosmology 🔬 Scientific Naturalism ⚖️ Philosophy Of Science 📜 Origins Of Science

The First Scientist

26 centuries ago, one man freed the Earth from its supports and nature from its gods.

저자: Carlo Rovelli 2005 256 페이지

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🏛️ Pre-Socratic Thought 🌌 Early Cosmology 🔬 Scientific Naturalism ⚖️ Philosophy Of Science 📜 Origins Of Science

So Very Small

저자: Thomas Levenson • 2025

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

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🏥 History Of Medicine 🦠 Germ Theory 🤒 Infectious Disease 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🔬 Microbial World

So Very Small

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

저자: Thomas Levenson 2025 448 페이지

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🏥 History Of Medicine 🦠 Germ Theory 🤒 Infectious Disease 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🔬 Microbial World

The Light Ages

저자: Seb Falk • 2020

Eclipse math, precision clocks, a six-foot computer: the medieval laboratory inside the monastery.

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🔬 History Of Science 🏰 Medieval History ⚗️ Medieval Science ⚙️ Medieval Technology 📜 Monastic Scholarship

The Light Ages

Eclipse math, precision clocks, a six-foot computer: the medieval laboratory inside the monastery.

저자: Seb Falk 2020 392 페이지

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🔬 History Of Science 🏰 Medieval History ⚗️ Medieval Science ⚙️ Medieval Technology 📜 Monastic Scholarship

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