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Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time

By John Grant

Book information

Publisher
Facts, Figures and Fun, an imprint of AAPPL Artists' and Photographers' Press Ltd
Year
2006
ISBN
1904332498, 9781904332497
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (9049289 bytes)
Pages
320\342
DPI
600
Time added
2023-07-26 04:24:45

Description

This book presents a trawl through the history of those scientific ideas which seemed plausible, at least to some, but turned out to be wrong. It includes flat earth, hollow earth, lost worlds and bizarre ideas about evolution; Piltdown man and other scams; alchemy, aliens, humours and homunculi...It offers a feast of curiosities.

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