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on 3/7/2017 7:31 AM
If you read a about the history of science, you will no doubt be astonished by some of the
amazing theories that people used to believe. I recently finished reading The Invention of Science
by David Wootton, which documents many of them (and is well worth reading,
not just because of this!) For example, did you know that if you put garlic on a magnet, the magnet
will stop working? Fortunately, you can recover the magnet by smearing goats blood on it. Giambattista
della Porta tested this and concluded that [...]