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They Laughed at Galileo: How the Great Inventors Proved Their Critics Wrong
By Jack, Albert
- ISBN
- 9781629147581 9781632202369
- Publisher
- Skyhorse
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Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Science and Technology
Jack's (Red Herrings and White Elephants) latest promises to deliver an amusing history of the success of great inventors in the face of opposition. Instead, the author presents a dense collection of anecdotes that devotes only a quarter of its content to humorous controversy. Most of the narrative is spent on baffling subjects arranged in no discernible ord...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
