Science has always been a fascinating field from which the most curious never tire of learning. For centuries, its diffusion has been vital for technological evolution and for humanity’s learning. Over the years, scientific knowledge has become more accessible to people, and especially to those who have a great interest in understanding the world, but who are not professionally dedicated to it.
Books have therefore been the link between times, and their content, the great treasure of knowledge . However, not all science books have been a revolution, and it is that either because of the complexity of the subject it deals with or because of the author’s communicative inability (who is usually a scientist), it is very difficult to read the work.
Popular science books have a duty to turn all that complexity into something ‘fresh’ and dynamic to facilitate understanding. This is the basis on which the genre itself is based, since the main intention is to arouse interest in this branch of knowledge.
Some of the great works that have achieved popular success have, on certain occasions, been able to make citizens significantly change their way of thinking about something or at least, to question what they took for granted. We are talking about books like “Origin of Species”, “The egoistic gene”, or simple texts by scientists and thinkers like Galileo Galilei.
Now a society has been forged in which science and technology occupy a fundamental place in the productive system and in general, in day-to-day life. It seems difficult to understand the modern world without understanding the role they play. It has been demonstrated that the population needs a scientific and technological culture to approach and understand the complexity and globality of the reality we live in.
It is no longer possible to reserve scientific and technological culture to an ‘elite’ . It is necessary that wide sectors of the population (without distinctions) have access to the challenge and satisfaction of understanding the universe in which we live. That they know where we come from and where we are going, so that they can imagine and build ideas collectively.
These classics of popular science have made it possible to bring science closer to society, ensuring that a priori complex concepts, such as the meaning of the acronym DNA or that our planet is a subtle point in the enormous universe, are understood by the majority. For all these reasons, we have made a selection of some of the best popular science books according to readers.
