Galileo and the Dolphins: Amazing but True Stories from Science - Hardcover

Adrian Berry

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9780788194696: Galileo and the Dolphins: Amazing but True Stories from Science

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0788194690 ISBN 13: 9780788194696

Publisher: Diane Pub Co, 1996

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What was the true story behind the persecution of Galileo, & what did it have to do with dolphins? Was Nostradamus a journalist or a prophet? Who was the famous astronomer accused of piracy as he sailed under southern stars? Who made a car with a working engine the size of a rice grain? Which clock is so accurate that it only loses a second every three million years? Find out the answers to these riddles in this absorbing & witty compilation of popular science stories. Covers a diverse & fascinating range of topics from medicine, meteorology & murder to archaeology, ideology, superstition & space travel. These quirky facts will astonish & intrigue you. Quizzes will test you.

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Written in a witty, easy-to-read style, the author gives us a collection of short stories about amusing "strange but true" science facts. Offers new and surprising stories from the past, present and even future science areas. Such areas of science discussed are archeology, astronomy, biology, medicine, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Includes a section of brainteasing, fact- and fun-filled quizzes to test your own knowledge of science.

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