Cuando la tierra era plana

The author of When the Earth Was Flat conducts an entertaining yet authoritative exploration of colorful scientific theories once believed to be true but long since disproved. The reader will discover, among many other things, why Queen Victoria ingested a tincture of opium on the advice of her doctor, how a reluctance to accept the idea of ??the germ theory led to the murder, and why Catholics invented the myth. that the tribes of South America practiced cannibalism. This fascinating book collects ideas that now seem more far-fetched than credible: that the human body is made up of only four humors (black and yellow bile, blood and phlegm) to the discovery of the so-called "missing link" of the evolutionary chain. When the Earth Was Flat tells the intriguing stories behind those scientific theories we once believed to be true, and shows how the way we see the world and the way we think it works has changed dramatically throughout history.