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Caroline Rochford - Great Victorian Discoveries: Astounding Revelations and Misguided Assumptions - 9781445645421 - V9781445645421
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Great Victorian Discoveries: Astounding Revelations and Misguided Assumptions

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Description for Great Victorian Discoveries: Astounding Revelations and Misguided Assumptions Paperback. Exactly what was the four-footed bird? Find out the answer to this and other weird and wonderful discoveries made by Victorian explorers and scientists. Num Pages: 288 pages, 150. BIC Classification: 3JH; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 24. Weight in Grams: 268.
Have you ever heard of a four-footed bird? Can you really teach a dog to read? Where would you find a kangaroo crossed with a lion? In this brilliant and bizarre follow-up to Great Victorian Inventions, Caroline Rochford reveals the wondrous experiments and extraordinary theories of the great minds of science, engineering and natural history of the Victorian age. Some discoveries were authentic, some merely misguided assumptions giving rise to strange beliefs. This book exposes the curious conviction that Martians were constructing waterways on Mars and that the sun was really blue. It enters the world of botany ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445645421
SKU
V9781445645421
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Caroline Rochford
Caroline Rochford runs a genealogy company with her historian husband. She has contributed several historical articles in the local press, and runs a blog covering historical and genealogical topics. She lives in Wakefield.

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