Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses
"Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a gen...
| Main Author: | Spalding, Katie (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The mathematical cult leader Pythagoras, and his incredibly stupid death
- Confucius was an ugly nerd with low self-esteem
- Never, ever hire Leonardo da Vinci
- Galileo utterly fails to read the room
- The entirely unbelievable life of Tycho Brahe
- When René Descartes got baked
- Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone
- Mozart uses his superstar status to tell us all to kiss his arse ... over and over again
- Benjamin Franklin uses world-changing technology to prank friends, self
- Émilie du Châtelet cares not for your social mores, and she will fight you in her underwear to prove it
- Johann Christian Reil invents psychiatry and things get really weird really quickly
- Napoleon Bonaparte's fluffiest foe
- Lord Byron, the patron saint of fuckboys
- Ada Lovelace's (husband's) family jewels
- Galois hunting
- John Couch Adams ignores his mail, loses Neptune
- You really wouldn't want to hang out with Karl Marx
- Charles Darwin: glutton; worm dad; murderer?
- James Glaisher, the Victorian weatherman who nearly became an astronaut
- Sigmund Freud used cocaine so much he thought numbers wanted to kill him
- Arthur Conan Doyle gets pranked so hard he claims fairies exist
- Thomas Edison's lesser-known invention: dial-a-ghost
- Real-life supervillain Nicola Tesla takes the term "pigeon fancying" a bit too literally
- Marie Curie defies all the odds to accidentally poison both herself and thousands of strangers
- Albert Einstein: public nuisance, love rat
- Kurt Gödel, the Disney princess who broke time
- Maya Angelou, in: Stop! or my mom will shoot
- Ernest Hemingway may have been the worst double agent ever
- Yukio Mishima and the shortest, gayest fascist coup in history
- NASA forgets about women, toilets and the metric system.