Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...
John GrantDiscarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...
January 1, 2006FF&F336 pages
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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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