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What's the most interesting book about science you've ever read?

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>>7457641
This one because it shows that technology will make utopia possible.

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>>7457641
I'm not a fan of 'popsci', but I found The Elegant Universe quite a fun read when I was a teenager - a book ABOUT science. If what you meant to ask was a different matter, say, a philosophical book on science, I'd say Kuhn's revolution was amazing (although I have come to disagree with many of his claim since I read it, I recommend Bird's book 'Kuhn' for a harsh critique), another great book is Objectivity by Daston & Galison, and a recent book that I can very much recommend is Systematicity by Hoyningen-Huene (a Kantian-Wittgenstenian approach to the demarcation problem).

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>>7457641
my diary, desu

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>>7457748
Currently reading this.

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Kuhn
Bachelard
Koyre

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Gravity's Rainbow

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>>7458420
Currently reading this.

>> No.7459264

Despair by John Hebrew

>> No.7459316

The Disappearing Spoon

>> No.7459399

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers was pretty interesting. It's about neurology but it refrains from the naive reductionist view of the brain that popular science books tend to forward.

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>>7459201
lello pudding

>> No.7459626

>not reading Elements by Euclids