Connections
by James Burke | 
The Knowledge Web
by James Burke | 
The Pinball Effect
by James Burke | 
Science
by John Gribbin | 
The Invention of Science
by David Wootton | 
The House of Wisdom
by Jim Al-Khalili | 
The Jasons
by Ann Finkbeiner | 
Origin Story
by David Christian | 
The Clockwork Universe
by Edward Dolnick | 
Great Feuds in Science
by Hal Hellman | 
The Scientists
by John Gribbin | 
Flat Earth
by Christine Garwood | 
Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
by Isaac Asimov | 
The Riddle of the Compass
by Amir D. Aczel | 
Edison's Eve
by Gaby Wood | 
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan | 
The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene | 
Chaos
by James Gleick | 
A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking | 
The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski |
In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when extraordinary discoveries were made by Spanish crusaders; in fourteenth-century Florence, where perspective in painting emerged; in the fifteenth century, when the advent of the printing press shook the foundations of an oral society; in the sixteenth century, when gunnery developments triggered the birth of modern science; in the early eighteenth century, when hot English summers brought on the Industrial Revolution; in the battlefield surgery stations of the French revolutionary armies, where people first became statistics; in the nineteenth century, when the discovery of dinosaur fossils led to the theory of evolution; and in the 1820s, when electrical experiments heralded the end of scientific certainty. Based on the popular television documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed is a bestselling history that challenges the reader to decide whether there is absolute knowledge to discover - or whether the universe is "ultimately what we say it is."