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Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time

By John Grant

Book information

Publisher
AAPPL
Year
2012
ISBN
9781904332497, 1904332498
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8631659 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-05 03:25:14
Sociology; Nonfiction; SOC000000

Description

A bestseller in its hardback incarnation, this is an erudite but delightfully readable journey through the history of scientific ideas that once seemed plausible, at least to some, but which turned out to be wrong. From the flat earth to the hollow earth to the lost lands of Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu, from phlogiston to the luminiferous aether to cold fusion and homeopathy, from bizarre ideas about fossils to earnest descriptions of homunculi or the canals of Mars... here's a feast of curiosities that will endlessly fascinate.

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