Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience

Vitamin C

A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience

By
Stephen Sagar
Stephen Sagar
2022 • 192 pages

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802 books

Nonfiction

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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

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645 books

History

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From Dawn to Decadence
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day
National Geographic Society Atlas of World History
How the Irish Saved Civilization

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179 books

Science

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What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
The World Without Us
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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181 books

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A Pattern of Lies
A Corruption of Blood
Interior Chinatown
When Women Ruled the World
The Bastille Spy

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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276 books

Medicine

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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine

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History Of Science

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
Fatal Invention
Video Games Have Always Been Queer
Superior: The Return of Race Science