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You don't have to be an eccentric obsessive to be a scientist, but it helps...In Mad Science Reto Schneider tells the extraordinary tales of 100 of the more unusual experiments conducted across seven centuries of science. From the attempts of the 14th-century Dominican monk Theodoric von Freiberg to discover the cause of the rainbow, to the efforts of the 20th-century psychologist Harry Harlow to be the perfect mother to a family of reluctant rhesus monkeys, these are stories that are often bizarre, sometimes mind-boggling - occasionally stomach-churning - but always diverting, informative and enlightening.Among the myriad delights on display in this cabinet of scientific curiosities are the renowned doctor from Padua who sat in a pair of scales for 30 years, recording the minutest changes in his weight; the sheep, the duck and the rooster who became the world's first air passengers; the disgusting Dr Stubbins Ffirth, who swallowed other people's vomit in an attempt to prove that yello
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About the Author
Born in 1963, Reto Schneider is a distinguished science journalist. A graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich with a degree in electrical engineering, he is the author of Planetenjager (Planet hunter), Birkhauser, 1997, the story of the discovery of the first planet found outside the solar system.
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'Mad Science is riddled with tales of selfless heroism... Reto Schneider's book, although written as trivia, is all the more interesting for the light it sheds on the dark psychology of its subject' Daily Telegraph. 'It's better than picking up the scalpel for yourself. I loved it' New Scientist.
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- PublisherQuercus Publishing Plc
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1849160694
- ISBN 13 9781849160698
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages287
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