MAD SCIENCE 100 AMAZING EXPERIMENTS FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ECCENTRIC OBSESSIVE TO BE A SCIENTIST, BUT IT HELPS...IN MAD SCIENCE 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 PROVE THAT YELL