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9780192804044

Fabulous Science Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

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    9780192804044

  • ISBN10:

    0192804049

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2099-11-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

"Drawing on the latest scholarship, John Waller shows that many of our greatest heroes of science were less than honest about their experimental data, and not above using friends in high places to help get their ideas accepted. He reveals how sheer effrontery and self-promotion propelled certain scientists to the fore, obscuring the vital contributions of others and the intrinsic merit of the ideas they overturned. Fabulous Science is an entertaining book, which resurrects the complex personalities, bitter rivalries, and intense human dramas that enliven and illuminate the history of science."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

John Waller is now a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: what is history for?
Right for the wrong reasons
The pasteurization of spontaneous generation
'The battle over the electron'
The eclipse of Isaac Newton: Arthur Eddington's 'proof' of general relativity
Very unscientific management
The Hawthorne studies: finding what you are looking forConclusion to
sins against science?
Telling science as it was
Myth in the time of cholera
'The priest who held the key': Gregor Mendel and the ratios of fact andfiction
Was Joseph Lister Mr Clean?
The Origin of Species by means of use-inheritance
'A is for ape, B is for Bible': science, religion, and melodrama
Painting yourself into a corner: Charles Best and the discovery of insulin
Alexander Fleming's dirty dishes
'A decoy of Satan'Conclusion to
sins against history?
Notes on sources
Index
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