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Something from Nothing

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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Aristotle's Secret Weapons of Speculation

Athanasius kercher and von helment published recipes for making animals. They lived in a time where aristotelian theory was meeting experimentation. Aristotle had compiled his data on spontaneous generation throughser and witness testimony, but what he hadn't thought to do is try to replicate those observations. In 16 hundred europe, that seemed like a pretty good idea. And according to those early experimenters, it worked.

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