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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 prove that yellow fever cannot be transmitted from one person to another; the hapless soldier Alexis St Martin, left with a hole in his stomach after an accident with a musket; and the ever-optimistic Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, who injected himself with essence of guinea pigs' testicles as an anti-ageing remedy. There is trivia here in abundance, but also quirky, but genuinely influential, science, notably Merrill Flood's and Melvin Dresher's experiments with choices of outcomes, which have been widely influential as game theory. A fizzing cocktail of fascinating science and rich entertainment, The Mad Science Book tells the extraordinary stories of some truly, madly, geeky people. It should be top of every self-respecting science buff's Christmas 2008 wishlist.
Contents
Introduction 1304 Theodoric and the Rainbow 1600 A Balanced Existence 1604 Stones in the Head 1620 Wood from Water 1729 The Mimosa Clock 1758 The Philosopher's Socks 1772 Electrocuting Eunuchs 1774 A Sauna in the Cause of Science 1783 Where Sheep May Safely Fly 1802 The Winking Corpse 1802 A Disgusting Doctorate 1825 The Man with the Hole in his Stomach 1837 ...and Introducing Darwin on Bassoon 1845 Trumpeters on the Train 1852 The Lechery Muscle 1883 Great - Someone Else Can Do All the Hard Work 1885 The Murderer's Head 1889 Guinea Pig Testicles - the Secret of Youth 1894 Dog Tired 1894 Low-flying Cats 1895 Sleepless in Iowa 1896 The World Turned Upside Down 1899 Bodies in the Vegetable Patch 1899 Tearing out Pubic Hairs 1900 Rat on a Detour 1901 Attempted Murder in the Lecture Theatre 1901 The Soul Weighs 21 Grams 1902 Pavlov Only Rings Once 1904 The Horse Whisperer 1912 Happy Birthday, Dear Cells! 1914 The Building of the Tower of Banana 1917 Dr Watson's Divorce 1920 Putting the Wind up Little Albert 1923 Male Urges in Female Bodies 1926 Boxes Help People Think Outside the Box 1927 Assembly by Moonlight 1927 Kissing the Culture Medium 1928 The Lust Curve 1928 Mamba in the Blood 1928 The Living Dog's Head 1930 Mr Skinner's Box 1930 Chinese Travelling Companions 1931 An Ape for a Kid Sister 1938 The 28-Hour Day 1945 The Great Famine 1946 A School Dropout Makes It Rain 1946 Holidaying in a Draught 1948 Spiders 1: Drug-induced Webs 1949 The Secretaries' Deal 1949 Orgasms in a Staccato Rhythm 1950 Be Good-natured - but not a Sap! 1951 Nosediving in the Vomit Comet 1951 Twenty Dollars for Doing Nothing 1952 Spiders 2: Spinning a Web with Amputated Limbs 1954 Frankenstein for Dogs 1955 Spiders 3: Urine in the Web 1955 The Psychonaut's Bathtub 1955 The Fog of Terror 1957 Psychology's Atom Bomb 1958 The Mother-Machine 1959 Fouling Up the Fighter 1959 The Experiment With the Unabomber 1959 A Trinity of Christs 1961 Obedient to the Last 1962 High on Good Friday 1962 Cookie-cutters Provide New Insights 1963 The Lost Letters 1964 Bullfighting by Remote Control 1966 Psychology with Car Horns 1966 Tip for Hitchhikers 1: Get an Injury! 1967 Six Steps for Knowing Everyone 1968 Of Mites and Men 1968 Eight Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1969 The Vandal in Us All 1969 The Ape in the Mirror 1969 Colour Tests in the Primeval Forest 1970 How Embarrassing! 1970 The Bad Samaritans 1970 The Dollar Auction 1970 Dr Fox Spouts Nonsense 1971 The Professor's Prison 1971 Tip for Hitchhikers 2: Be Female! 1971 Galileo on the Moon 1971 The Atomic Clock Files Economy 1972 A Quick Getaway at the Lights 1973 The Sex Raft 1973 Trembling Knees Make Hearts Flutter 1973 Spiders 4: in Space 1973 Invasion in the Urinal 1974 In a Froth at the Lights 1974 Tip for Hitchhikers 3: Look them in the Eyes! 1974 Tip for Hitchhikers 4: Be Well-endowed! 1975 Perspiration Extract in the Waiting Room 1976 The Razor as Teaching Aid 1976 A Millionaire Has Himself Cloned 1976 The Controversy over Life on Mars 1977 Country and Western Philosophy 1978 Want to Come to Bed with Me? 1979 Free "Unwill" 1984 Bigger Tips for Touching 1984 Efficient Chat-up Lines 1984 The Voluntary Stomach Ulcer 1986 A Year in Bed 1992 Doing the dead in an MRI Scanner 1994 Fair-wweather Waiter 1995 The Minimum Distance for Striptease Artistes 1997 Pubic Hairs Go Walkabout 1998 The Loudspeakers of Jericho 1999 Unaccountably Hungry 2002 The Mathematics of Stick-throwing 2003 Close Encounters With a Dogbot Acknowledgements Index Picture Acknowledgements
