The Totally Useless History of Science
Language: English
Published by Quercus Books, 2010
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- Title
- The Totally Useless History of Science
- Author
- Ian Crofton
- Publisher
- Quercus Books
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1848660731
- ISBN 13
- 9781848660731
- Fact: The stethoscope owes its invention in 1816 to a young doctor who was too embarrassed to put his ear to a young woman’s chest
- Fact: In 1954 a Soviet surgeon grafted a puppy’s head onto the shoulder of a German shepherd dog
- Fact: Since falling off a ship in 1992, fleets of yellow rubber ducks have provided invaluable data on the currents of the world’s oceans
- Physics: from experiments involving the slow removal of one’s stockings to the Dutchman who tested the Doppler effect by placing an entire orchestra on a railway wagon.
- Zoology: from the spontaneous generation of mice from rotting wheat to the ‘discovery’ that swallows spend their winters at the bottom of lakes
- Botany: from the rhododendron honey that makes men mad to the use of ginger as an equine suppository
- Meteorology: from showers of frogs and fish to the man struck by lightning seven times
- Astronomy: from the Greek philosopher who believed the sun was a great disk of blazing metal to the American astronomer who saw irrigation canals on Mars
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