Lost Science

Lost Science
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ISBN-10 : 1454918071
ISBN-13 : 9781454918073
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Book Synopsis Lost Science by : Kitty Ferguson

Download or read book Lost Science written by Kitty Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular science writer Kitty Ferguson investigates little-explored byroads in the history of science, from Kepler's nearly disastrous venture into science fiction to a twentieth-century experiment involving cats and rocket fuel. She introduces long-forgotten discoverers and takes us on astounding adventures with the likes of Jesuit astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest, who invented the first automobile and won a bizarre astronomy competition in seventeenth-century China against his former torturer.


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