The Experts Speak
Subtitle: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
Publisher: Villard Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780965064613
First sentence: In the eighteenth century, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Museum of France, calculated that the history of the earth, from the creation to the end of organic life, would last for a period of exactly 168,123 years, approximately half of which had already elapsed.