Great Discoveries is a 16-book series with 16 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by David Foster Wallace, ديفيد فوستر والاس, Sherwin B. Nuland, Michio Kaku, Rebecca Goldstein, Barbara Goldsmith, Madison Smartt Bell, باربارا جولدسميث, David Quammen, David Leavitt, Michael D. Lemonick, and Lawrence M. Krauss.