📚 Scientists

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with scientists on their catalogue record, first published between 1857 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject scientists in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 18,167 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Longitude	Dava Sobel	1995	49
Uncle Tungsten	Oliver Sacks	2001	24
Benjamin Franklin	Carl Van Doren	1938	22
Leonardo da Vinci	Walter Isaacson	2017	21
The Invention of Nature	Andrea Wulf	2015	19
Biographies of distinguished scientific men	Dominique François Jean Arago	1857	17
Benjamin Franklin	Walter Isaacson	2003	17
Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology	Isaac Asimov	1964	15
Microbe hunters	Paul De Kruif	1926	13
Starry Messenger	Peter Sís	1996	12
Women in Science	Rachel Ignotofsky	2016	10
Wings of Fire	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	1999	9
Marie Curie's	Beverley Birch	1995	7
The Last Man Who Knew Everything	Andrew Robinson	2005	7
Poor Richard	James Daugherty	1941	5
The psychology of science	Abraham H. Maslow	1966	5
Odd Boy Out	Don Brown	2004	5
The man who loved China	Simon Winchester	2008	4
Sterling Biographies: Benjamin Franklin	Maria Mihalik Higgins	2007	3
The boy scientist	John Bryan Lewellen	1955	2
God's Secret Formula	Peter Plichta	1997	2
Suffering Scientists (Horrible Science)	Nick Arnold	2000	2
Gregor Mendel	Cheryl Bardoe	2006	2
Ten outstanding Filipino scientists	Queena N. Lee	2000	1
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	K. Bhushan	2002	1
Inspiring thoughts	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	2007	1
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	Arun Tiwari	2016	1
Idea Makers	Stephen Wolfram	2016	1
Turning Points	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	2012	1
My Journey	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	2014	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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