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The "goofs" described here include some of the more spectacular and bizarre mistakes taken by reputable thinkers on the rocky road to scientific truth - goofs such as Ptolemy's insistence that the earth is the centre of the universe, Galvani's theory that frogs generate electricity, the belief that Martians irrigate their planet via a series of canals and Columbus's geographic speculations, which differ somewhat from modern maps.
| ISBN: | 9780716765530 |
| Publisher: | W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd |
| Imprint: | W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd |
| Pub date: | 24 Apr 1995 |
| DEWEY: | 509 |
| Number of pages: | 112 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Height: | 210mm |
| Width: | 136mm |
| Spine width: | 13mm |
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