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- A Book Full of Unusual Experiments: Forgotten Science, Strange Ideas from the Scrapheap of History By SD Tucker
About the Book
Was Jesus a giant electron? How much does a mouse’s soul weigh? Can women mate with monkeys? As mad as these questions may seem, they have been asked by science in years gone by. Forgotten Science unearths some of the most extraordinary attempts to understand the world around us.
Science has a reputation as the most logical and rational of human pastimes – but this has not always been the case. From the inventor Nikola Tesla, who fell in love with his favourite pigeon and tried to broadcast his own thoughts, to the wannabe chemist August Strindberg, who injected apples with drugs to see if they could get high, numerous scientists have conducted bizarre experiments down the centuries. Some of them were genuine geniuses; others were simply lone loons. History is littered with their wreckage, and this book tells the story of the very strangest. Proposing that science has become a kind of modern religion, and telling the tale of such noted pseudoscientific fads and fallacies as alchemy, spontaneous generation and the doomed quest to raise the dead, Forgotten Science is sure to make you laugh at the same time as making you think. Science was never this weird.
About the Author:
S.D. Tucker is an author and journalist. He writes a regular column in Fortean Times magazine and lives in Widnes, Cheshire, in the United Kingdom. He is also the author of Space Oddities: Our Strange Attempts to Explain the Universe, False Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful and Most Audacious Financial Follies of All Time and Quacks: Dodgy Doctors and Foolish Fads Throughout History.
For any queries please write to sagiri.dixit@harpercollins.co.in
Non Fiction | Rs 499 | HarperCollins India
https://www.amazon.in/Forgotten-Science-Strange-Scrapheap-History/dp/935357739X
About the Book - Forgotten Science
Science has a reputation as the most logical and rational of human pastimes -- but this has not always been the case. From the inventor Nikola Tesla, who fell in love with his favourite pigeon and tried to broadcast his…
About the Author - S.D. Tucker
S.D. Tucker is an author and journalist. He is also the author of Space Oddities: Our Strange Attempts to Explain the Universe, False Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful and Most Audacious Financial Follies of All Time and Quacks: Dodgy Doctors…
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