Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?

"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan - that book was a life changer for me and has been with me ever since.

Turing's cathedral

Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs'

The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Richard Hamming's "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" is an insider's (Manhattan Project, Bell Labs) view of how computer science as we know it developed.

James Burke's book version of 'Connections'

That is the book detailling the history of future science!

Summa Technologiae

Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford

The Maniac, by Benjamin Labatut. It’s a fictionalised biography of John von Nuemann and the birth of artificial intelligence. Amazing , surreal and unique

Critical Path by R Buckminster Fuller

Asimov’s New Guide to Science (Asimov)

including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician.