On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Bharat Shetty <bharat.she...@gmail.com> wrote: > A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting > science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except > some science fiction. >
I would strongly recommend both these books : 'the case of the midwife toad' - by Arthur Koestler <http://www.amazon.com/Case-Midwife-Toad-Arthur-Koestler/dp/0091082609> (its probably out of print ...) - its the biography of a lamarckian evolution theorist whose research was sabotaged by the nazis And this one : Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (also by arthur koestler) <http://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Vision-Universe/dp/0140192468> provides historical perspectives of cosmology
