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Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...
by John Grant
January 1, 2006No grades yet
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A trawl through the history of those scientific ideas which seemed plausible, at least to some, but turned out to be wrong. Includes flat earth, hollow earth, lost worlds and bizarre ideas about evolution; Piltdown man and other scams; alchemy, aliens, humours and homunculi. A feast of curiosities.
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