Reinvention Of Science The Slaying The Dragons Of Dogma And Ignorance

Throughout the history of science different thinkers philosophers and scientists postulated the existence of entities that in spite of their not being visible or detectable in their time or perhaps ever were nevertheless useful to explain the real world. We started this book by looking at a handful of these entities. These included phlogiston to account for fire the luminiferous ether for propagation of radiation the homunculus to provide for heredity and crystalline spheres to carry the wanderi