Published 1957
by Dover Publications in New York .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Other titles | In the name of science. |
| Genre | Miscellanea |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 363 p. |
| Number of Pages | 363 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL23745173M |
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Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (K), or click on a page image below to browse page by : Bruno Gebhard. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science) by Martin Gardner, ISBN , Compare new and used books prices among online bookstores. Find the lowest price. First published in as "In the Name of Science", "Fads and Fallacies" is often cited as the first book written for the scientific or rational sceptical movement. True, as Gardener states in his preface to the first edition, there were prototypical works, but nothing really comprehensively looked at the culture, motivations and nature of pseudoscience, charlatanism and quackery as this s: Martin's first Dover books were published in and Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, /5(6).
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