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NEW EDITION March 2014 Just how the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? Beginnings, Blunders and Breakthroughs in Science investigates the eureka moments, the serendipities and the plain errors that have peppered the sciences last 2,500 years. Overflowing with wit, insight and information, the book offers chronological account that takes us from ancient Egypt and the earliest reference to pi to the twenty-first century and the discovery that ended the search for the elusive God particle. In 191 short, sharp and simple stories youll learn, with surprise and How anaesthesia was discovered at a party Who, in the sixth century BC claimed that the earth is round Why the Riemann hypothesis remains mathematics greatest unsolved problem Who announced that because Great Britain had plenty of messenger boys, it had no need for the telephone How Vesalius, in 1543, scotched the idea that men have one rib fewer that women How a sewerage farm odour reducer benefitted medicine This 63,000-word paperback and Kindle book is an updated version of the print edition of The Cause of Mosquitoes Beginnings, Blunders and Breakthroughs in Science (2007) which was published

Author

Verma, Surendra, 1942-

Publisher

New York: MJF Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567319330

Subjects

Science, History, Stem

Updated

2026-03-24