MAD SCIENCE BOOK

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ECCENTRIC OBSESSIVE TO BE A SCIENTIST, BUT IT HELPS...IN THE MAD SCIENCE BOOK, RETO SCHNEIDER TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TALES OF 100 OF THE MORE UNUSUAL EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED ACROSS SEVEN CENTURIES OF SCIENCE. FROM THE ATTEMPTS OF THE 14TH-CENTURY DOMINICAN MONK THEODORIC VON FREIBERG TO DISCOVER THE CAUSE OF THE RAINBOW, TO THE EFFORTS OF THE 20TH-CENTURY PSYCHOLOGIST HARRY HARLOW TO BE THE PERFECT MOTHER TO A FAMILY OF RELUCTANT RHESUS MONKEYS, THESE ARE STORIES THAT ARE OFTEN BIZARRE, SOMETIMES MIND-BOGGLING - OCCASIONALLY STOMACH-CHURNING - BUT ALWAYS DIVERTING, INFORMATIVE AND ENLIGHTENING. AMONG THE MYRIAD DELIGHTS ON DISPLAY IN THIS CABINET OF SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITIES ARE THE RENOWNED DOCTOR FROM PADUA WHO SAT IN A PAIR OF SCALES FOR 30 YEARS, RECORDING THE MINUTEST CHANGES IN HIS WEIGHT; THE SHEEP, THE DUCK AND THE ROOSTER WHO BECAME THE WORLD'S FIRST AIR PASSENGERS; THE DISGUSTING DR STUBBINS FFIRTH, WHO SWALLOWED OTHER PEOPLE'S VOMIT IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROV