Fabulous Science Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery
by Waller, JohnFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2099-11-30
Publisher(s): 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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