科普书目

2008-09-25 14:35:10 来自: 陳力恒

原收于拙著《科学解释》
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胡适和梁启超两位先生都列过国学入门书目﹝胡先生的题为〈一个最低限度的国学书目〉，梁先生的题为〈国学入门书要目及其读法〉﹞，都有一个不足之处：无程度之分。文史之书不必如科学之书细分次序，但要一个初入门的学子在那些书目随便找本书，如果选中《尚书》作第一本，大概汗颜。

科幻小说和教科书不列。所列之书包括较旧的经典和较新的著作。程度粗略分配如下：I为入门，适合没有科学底子的一般读者；II为科学之美；III为一般科普，理科生可由这里开始，上列文章大概属此程度；IV为科学哲学。



I 基础入门 Foundation

Bill Bryson, A Short History Of Nearly Everything.
Jean Henri Fabre, Selected Works. http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/f#a735
法布尔：《昆虫记》
Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
费曼：《别闹了，费曼先生！》
George Gamow, One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science. (Revised ed.) http://www.archive.org/details/onetwothreeinfin000923mbp
伽莫夫：《从一到无穷大》
Surendra Verma, The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories & Things.
Steven Weinberg, Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries.
温伯格：《科学迎战文化敌手》
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World.
怀海德：《科学与现代世界》
朱经武、钱大康等：《科学就在生活中》
杨振宁、李远哲、朱经武：《诗人科学家》
约翰．劳埃德、约翰．米奇森：《动物趣谈》
http://lz.book.sohu.com/serialize-id-10590.html

II 科学之美 Beauty of Science

Bülent Atalay, Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci.
Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow.
Ian Stewart, Why Beauty is Truth: The History of Symmetry.
E.O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.
A. Zee, Fearful Symmetry: The Seaarch for Beauty in Modern Physics.
徐一鸿：《可畏的对称──现代物理美的探索》

III 一般科普 General Popular Science

Paul Davies, The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion.
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science.
Roald Hoffmann, The Same and Not the Same.
霍夫曼着，吕慧娟译：《回荡化学两极间──寻找美丽而感性的中间地带》
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Joe Schwarcz, Dr. Joe & What You Didn't Know: 177 Fascinating Questions About the Chemistry of Everyday Life.
苏瓦兹着，叶伟文译：《苏老师生活化学快问妙答》
Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? http://home.att.net/~p.caimi/schrodinger.html
薛丁格：《生命是什么》
方舟子编：《新语丝·科学专辑》 http://www.xys.org/pages/science.html

III.A 数学 Mathematics

Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics. New York: W.W.Norton & Company Inc., 1954.
Mario Livio, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry.
Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number.
David Salsburg, The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century.
Simon Singh, Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It.
Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking.
Simon Singh, Fermat's Last Theorem.
Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos.

III.B 物理科学 Physical Science

Albert Einstein, Relativity.
John B. Fenn, Engines, Energy, and Entropy: A Theermodynamics Primer.
Richard P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law.
Galileo Galilei, Dialogues On Two World Systems. http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?step=thumb&dir=galil_syste_065_en_1661
Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time.
Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time.
Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell.
Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy. http://www.archive.org/details/physicsandphilos010613mbp
Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel.
Robert Laughlin, A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down.
Lillian R. Lieber, The Einstein Theory of Relativity. http://www.archive.org/details/einsteintheoryof032414mbp
Yakov I. Perelman, Physics for Entertainment. http://www.archive.org/details/physicsforentert035428mbp
Lee Smolin, The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next.
Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature.
Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe.
Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law.
曹天元：《上帝掷骰子吗？──量子物理史话》http://book.sina.com.cn/nzt/liangzishihua/

III.C 生命科学 Life Science

Susan Aldridge, The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering.
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution. http://www.archive.org/details/creativeevolutio029695mbp
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_TheDescentofMan.html
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_OntheOriginofSpecies.html
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life.
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker.
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.
Daniel C. Dennett, Charwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life.
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.
Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality.
Ronald A. Fisher, The Genetical Theory Of Natural Selection. http://www.archive.org/details/geneticaltheoryo031631mbp
Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin.
Stephen Jay Gould, Life's Grandeur.
Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.
Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life.
Marion D. Kendall, Dying to Live: How our Bodies Fight Disease.
Sherwin B. Nuland, The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis.
The Official Richard Dawkins Website, http://richarddawkins.net
Reinhard Renneberg, Manfred Bofinger (Illustrator), Liebling, Du hast die Katze geklont!: Biotechnologie im Alltag.
任能博着，波芬尔绘图，姬健梅译：《复制一个我！──从啤酒、西红柿到桃丽羊，所有你该知道的生物科技》
Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature.
John Sulston and Georgina Ferry, The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome.
The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive, http://www.stephenjaygould.org
James D. Watson and Andrew Berry, DNA: The Secret of Life.
Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield, After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning.
E.O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life.
威尔森着，金恒镳译：《缤纷的生命》

IV 科学哲学 Philosophy of Science

Martin Curd and J. A. Cover (ed.), Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues.
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction.
Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Bertrand Russell, The Principles Of Mathematics. http://www.archive.org/details/principlesofmath005807mbp
Stephen Toulmin, The Philosophy Of Science. http://www.archive.org/details/philosophyofscie032167mbp