Title: Scientists and scoundrels : a book of hoaxes /
Authors: Silverberg, Robert.; Snyder, Jerome,
Publisher: Crowell
Year: 1965
Subjects: Science Miscellanea; Science Miscellanea.; Impostors and imposture.
Abstract: Exposes the hoaxes which scientists have devised to deceive their peers and explains the scientific background against which these hoaxes appeared and the detective work leading to their discovery.
Contents: 1.; The lying stones of Dr. Beringer -- ; 2.; The marvelous magnetism of Dr. Mesmer -- ; 3.; The men on the moon -- ; 4.; The sea serpent of Dr. Koch -- ; 5.; John Keely's perpetual-motion machine -- ; 6.; The Kensington stone -- ; 7.; Dr. Cook and the North Pole -- ; 8.; Paul Schliemann and the lost continent of Atlantis -- ; 9.; The Etruscan sculptures -- ; 10.; The case of the Venezuelan ape-man -- ; 11.; The Kammerer tragedy -- ; 12.; Otto Fischer's rocket ride -- ; 13.; The Piltdown puzzle -- ; A last word -- ; Bibliography -- ; Index.