On the shoulders of giants: the great works of physics and astronomy. Stephen Hawking. 2002.

Five geniuses who revolutionised the course of science. Five groundbreaking books - one of them controversial enough to be banned in the seventeenth century by the Catholic Church; another considered so ‘dangerous’ its author was accused of heresy. Plus a carefully crafted introduction by theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking which links them all. That’s what you’ll find in On the Shoulders of Giants, the first-ever compilation of the great works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein.