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

by John Waller and John Waller

Book Overview

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"