The "goofs" described here include some of the more spectacular and bizarre mistakes taken by reputable thinkers on the rocky road to scientific truth - goofs such as Ptolemy's insistence that the earth is the centre of the universe, Galvani's theory that frogs generate electricity, the belief that Martians irrigate their planet via a series of canals and Columbus's geographic speculations, which differ somewhat from modern maps.
- ISBN10 0716765373
- ISBN13 9780716765370
- Publish Date 1 August 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 June 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 112
- Language English