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1. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate
2. The Code Book by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate
3. Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
4. The Nothing That Is by Robert Kaplan, Allen Lane/Penguin
5. The End of Time by Julian Barbour, Phoenix Press
6. Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine, Little, Brown
7. H₂O by Philip Ball, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
8. Walking with Dinosaurs by Tim Haines, BBC Books
9. Why Do Buses Come in Threes? by Jeremy Wyndham and Rob Eastaway, Robson Books
10. Oxford Figures by John Fauvel, Oxford University Press

Lisa Jardine’s excellent new book Ingenious Pursuits is a bit of a hybrid: a
brilliant extended essay exploring why we need to know what scientists looked
like, and a catalogue to an exhibition of portraits of the greats of the past at
London’s National Portrait Gallery.

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