Farmer Buckleys Exploding Trousers And Other Odd Events On The Way To Scientific Discovery

Meticulously reseaerched by the internationally acclaimed New Scientist magazine, these stories of haphazard discovery, delusion, and greed include the doctor who thought he could cure madness with a quick spin in a centrifuge, thge engineer who came up with a radipo that ran on gas, and the two young men who dug a giant hole and discovered the center of the galaxy.