Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

by John Waller and John Waller

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The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian' genetics. Joseph Lister's famously clean hospital wards were actually notorious dirty. And Einstein's general relativity was only 'confirmed' in 1919 because...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198609396

ISBN13:9780198609391

Release Date:December 2005

Publisher:OUP Oxford

Length:322 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Related Subjects

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