Scientific books I have read:
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (by Galileo Galilei).
- The Sidereal Messenger , Letter to The Grand Duchess Christina and Letter to Castelli (by Galileo Galilei).
- The Science Of Mechanics (by Ernst Mach).
- The Analysis of Matter (by Bertrand Russell).
- Lectures on Elementary Mathematics (by Joseph Louis Lagrange).
- The nature of the physical world (by Arthur Stanley Eddington).
- The Expanding Universe (by Arthur Stanley Eddington).
- History Of Physics (by Max Von Laue).
- Space–time–matter (by Hermann Weyl).
- Not even wrong (by Peter Woit).
- The Trouble With Physics (by Lee Smolin).
- Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics (by Amir D. Aczel).
- Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (by Sabine Hossenfelder).
- Celestial Mechanics (by E. Finlay-Freundlich).
- Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (by Richard S. Westfall).
- The Creation of the Universe (by George Gamow).
- Experiment and theory in physics (by Max Born).
- Paradoxes of the infinite (by Bernard Bolzano).
- The first six books of Euclid’s Elements , with introduction and commentary by Sir Thomas Heath.
- The Mystery of the Quantum World (by Euan J. Squires).
- The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists (by G. D. Coughlan and J. E. Dodd).
- Introduction to Superconductivity, Second Edition ( by A.C.Rose-Innes and E.H. Rhoderick) .
- The Demon–Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (by Carl Sagan).
- Lost Discoveries. The Ancient Roots of Modern Science–from the Babylonians to the Maya (by Dick Teresi.).
- Galileo, Science and the Church ( by Jerome J. Langford).
- Unification of Fundamental Forces ( by Abdus Salam).
- Einstein: The Life and Times ( by Ronald W. Clark).
- Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution (by Lee Smolin),
Pythagoras
Isaac Newton
Pierre Simon Laplace
Max Planck
Scientific books I’ve read in French:
- La science et l‘hypothèse (Science and hypothesis by Henri Poincaré).
- La Valeur de la Science ( The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré).
- L’évolution des idées en physique (The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld).
- La théorie de la relativité restreinte et générale (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein).
- La Physique nouvelle et les quanta (by Louis de Broglie).
- Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique (by Louis de Broglie).
- Les atomes (by Jean Perrin).
- Initiations à la physique ( by Max Planck).
- Discours de la méthode – La Dioptrique (Discourse on the Method and Dioptrics by René Descartes).
- L’origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin).
- Electromagnetisme et gravitation relativistes (by Jean-Claude Boudenot).
- Les origines de la physique moderne (The Birth of a New Physics by I. Bernard Cohen).
- Les trois premières minutes de l’univers (The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg).
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Plus vite que la lumière ( Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation by João Magueijo ).
- Une Histoire de l’astronomie (by Jean-Pierre Verdet).
- Une histoire des mathématiques : Routes et dédales (by Amy Dahan-Dalmédico and Jeanne Peiffer ).
- La physique moderne et ses théories ( The new world of physics by Arthur March).
- Du monde clos à l’univers infini ( From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe by Alexandre Koyré).
- Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale (An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine , by Claude Bernard).
- L’Homme, cet inconnu (Man, The Unknown , by Alexis Carrel).
- Le hasard et la nécessité ( Chance and Necessity by Jacques Monod).
- Des Atomes et des hommes ( by Louis Leprince-Ringuet).
- La nature dans la physique contemporaine (The Representation of Nature in Contemporary Physics ,by Werner Heisenberg).
- La science et le bon sens ( Science And The Common Understanding by J. Robert Oppenheimer).
- Science et Synthèse ( Contributions and scientific debates by Pierre Auger, Louis de Broglie , Werner Heisenberg , Julian Huxley , J. Robert Oppenheimer and others).
- La nature de la physique ( The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman).
- Qu‘est–ce que la vie ? ( What Is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger).
- Comment je vois le monde ( The world as I see it , by Albert Einstein).
- Souvenirs d’un Alsacien 1858-1922 (An autobiographical book by the mathematician Paul Appell).
- La Science chinoise et l’Occident ( by Joseph Needham).
— This book consists of a series of articles by Joseph Needham about the history of science in China and its relation to western countries and other cultures. Needham writes in favor of a broader recognition of the role of the chinese civilization in the advancement of science and technology ,and in favor of a global recognition of the contribution of all cultures to the development and progress of the sciences, without diminishing the role of European nations in the last few centuries.
- Physique (Physics by Aristotle).
Of course some books may be about science as well as philosophy or history , such as the Physics of Aristotle which can be considered as belonging to the philosophy of science , as well as to the history of science and philosophy.
To be continued …
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Good day, fnils-kmix.
I’ve just found your blog and I’m really glad.
My own field is Medicine and I work both at Uni and Hospital. Perhaps, it looks strange why I’m interested in fields that aren’t related to mine, but it is the way how I learn about our world, life, people and myself.
And it seems that your explanations of fundamental maths, physics, astronomy topics would help me understand this world and life better, deeper.
Thank you for your list of scientific books. I definitely will read them and try to understand within my limited knowledge of not related to medicine and biology topics. Sometimes it works and then I’m happy like a child!
Also, in case someone like me reads your blog, I want to add to your list several books I’ve read and enjoyed immensely. They helped me to understand things better on their respective emergence levels.
P.S. I apologize for grammar mistakes and awkward phrasing. English is not my native language.
Hello Nala.
Thank you for your interest in my blog. I’m glad you found my writings useful.
I am also interested in many fields of knowledge and science. I read a lot about various topics and I try to understand the world around me.
I encourage you to continue reading, continue being curious and seek (scientific and accurate) knowledge.
PS. I took the liberty of writing the nickname or username that I’m generally using in this blog, which is fnils-kmix, or just fnils for a shorter version or nick. The other nickname you wrote is used by another person on another website.
If you want you can tell me more about yourself, your interests or studies, and if you have a question I will try to answer you according to my knowledge and abilities.
Hello again, fnils-kmix.
Thank you for your kind words. Curiosity is my second nature, so I can’t imagine myself stopping to learn things. Life is very interesting, complex and beautiful to ignore it.
About me. I live in Ukraine and, as I said, I work at Uni, Medical School (main job, associate professor, PhD) and Hospital (secondary job, MD, practical medicine).
Because of war we all work online (lectures, seminars, exams, meetings, conferences, everything) and it is really bad for 4-6 years students. We have fundamental disciplines (like mine), that don’t require mandatory offline presence, and we have hospital-related disciplines, and it is very hard to teach students without real life examples.
Our research is suspended, and now we all write articles based on materials and data we collected not only before full-scaled war beginning, but before Covid pandemic also. Many of our Uni buildings and laboratories are destroyed, and at this point of life we don’t have much to do. It is a major setback for Ukrainian science not only because of destruction of our homes and infrastructure, but because of mass emigration of scientists and medical doctors. And no one knows what our future holds for us.
Anyway, life goes on and war is not an excuse to stop learning someting new.
My interest, especially in quantum physics and maths, is an attempt to understand not only how our Universe looks and works on the fundamental level, but how it affects us.
For example, how do we get a disease?
Someone would say because of DNA damage. Good answer, but it explains nothing. DNA is a bunch of genes. Gene is a bunch of nucleotides. Nucleotide is a bunch of molecules. Molecule is a bunch of atoms. Atom is a bunch of protons, neutrons and electrons. Protons and neutrons are a bunch of quarks (also, we have other confusing elementary particles to add to that). Electron is mysterious wave-particle. And all that beauty “lives” in the mysterious Higgs field, that interacts with other elementary particles via Higgs boson. So where, on which level do we have the origin of a disease? Problems with the Higgs field? Abnormal quarks in the protons or neutrons? Abnormally constructed atomic nucleus? Crazy electrons?
I guess, now you have the general idea about what I’m trying to understand. And it is not related exclusively to health and diseases. I’m curious about how everything works on a fundamental level and why.
I’ll start to read your blog from the beginning, step-by-step, and will be grateful, if you or someone else will answer my questions. It is easy for me to navigate in the biology/medicine field, but all hell breaks through when I try to visit foreign territory.
Hello again Nala.
I hope the situation will be better in Ukraine, and I hope there will be peace.
I commend you for your interest in science and for your curiosity. You seem to have a good general knowledge about scientific topics.
The origin of disease is connected to medical and scientific topics such as microbiology, biochemistry, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. It is known that viruses, microorganisms, cells and nucleic acids consist of atoms and elementary or subatomic particles, whose behavior and interactions follow laws of physics that were discovered or formulated in previous centuries or decades. These physical laws and explanations were the result of years and decades of experimental and theoretical work, using mathematics, scientific instruments and the rules of the scientific method, which led to the elaboration of physical theories and interpretations like quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics.
While biological and medical phenomena and diseases are explained at the smallest scales of matter by these physical theories and by the interactions between elementary particles, I think more details and further interpretation of diseases or infections at the subatomic level will have to be the result of additional scientific experiments and observations, followed by coherent and testable theories and interpretations. The advances in physics and chemistry have a significant influence or impact on the other sciences, and pave the way for advances in experimental as well as theoretical biophysics, biochemistry, medicine and biology. Advances in computer science and AI can also help in studying and explaining diseases.
If you like to learn more, you can try to read or consult this book for example: Biophysics of Infection, edited by Mark Leake. Or you can search online for words like “physics and biophysics of disease”.
I hope this answer was helpful.
Thank you for your answer, fnils-kmix.
“The origin of disease is connected to medical and scientific topics such as microbiology, biochemistry, epidemiology, and pathogenesis.”
Yes, yes, and this is exactly what I teach students – the pathogenesis (mechanism) of diseases. General mechanisms (applied to many organs and systems) and mechanisms of specific diseases.
“How” and “Why” are the questions, that must be answered by me and students.
We start from the molecular level and, step-by-step, proceed to the body level (signs, symptoms, micro- and macromorphological changes). This journey required the deep knowledge of etiology, epidemiology, chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, microbiology, anatomy, histology, normal physiology and Latin language. It is a fundamental discipline and very brainstormish journey.
“If you like to learn more, you can try to read or consult this book for example: Biophysics of Infection, edited by Mark Leake.”
I’ve read this book and many others related to biophysics. Unfortunately, they all start from the molecular level. It is not a bad thing, considering we didn’t know even that 100 years ago. But I feel we have more than that, deeper, on subatomic level.
“Or you can search online for words like “physics and biophysics of disease”.”
I’ll try the “physics of disease” and thank you very much for this suggestion! Maybe I can find something interesting. Thank you!
You are welcome.