Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...

Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...

2006 • 336 pages

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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John Grant's Science

John Grant's Science is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by John Grant.

Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...
Corrupted Science
Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
Spooky Science: Debunking the Pseudoscience of the Afterlife

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