{"product_id":"mad-science-100-amazing-experiments-from-the-history-of-science-by-schneider-reto-author","title":"Mad Science: 100 Amazing Experiments from the History of Science by schneider-reto (Author)","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781849160698\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ Quercus, \u003cspan\u003eJanuary 1, 2009\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 287 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou 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 yello\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46703251849378,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/41rLe85D2gL._SY342.jpg?v=1774361957","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/mad-science-100-amazing-experiments-from-the-history-of-science-by-schneider-reto-author","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}