Discarded Science

An erudite bit delightfully readable trawl through the history of those scientific ideas which once seemed plausible, at least to some, but turned out to be wro... » 

An erudite bit delightfully readable trawl through the history of those scientific ideas which once seemed plausible, at least to some, but turned out to be wrong. Includes flat earth, hollow earth, lost worlds and the bizarre ideas about evolution, alchemy, aliens, humours and homunculi-- a feast of curiosities. «