Boffinology. The Real Stories Behind Our Greatest Scientific Discoveries

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: John Murray
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 324 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the people responsible. Meet Thales, credited as the father of science, whose only real claim to fame is that he often fell into ditches, discover how Archimedes never said Eureka and hated baths anyway and how the most lucrative ancient Greek invention was not democracy but the slot machine. Justin Pollard also fills us in on Issac Newton who liked to disguise himself and lurk in Londons less salubrious pubs, how eleven people claimed to have invented the steam engine and why the first website was twelve foot across and made of wood.

ISBN: 9781848542006