Farmer Buckleys Exploding Trousers And Other Odd Events On The Way To Scientific Discovery
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781846685088
Description: Meticulously reseaerched by the internationally acclaimed New Scientist magazine, these stories of haphazard discovery, delusion, and greed include the doctor who thought he could cure madness with a quick spin in a centrifuge, thge engineer who came up with a radipo that ran on gas, and the two young men who dug a giant hole and discovered the center of the galaxy.