These essays explore episodes in the history of science that suggest instead that the process of understanding the significance of scientific discoveries can be erratic, contradictory, even irrational. Contributors include Oliver Sacks, R. C. Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Miller, and Daniel Kevles.

"These eminent scientists and historians of science share a gift for clear exposition and luminous prose. Such elegant writing for a general public should shame humanists plagued by jargon."—Esquire

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In an early spring day in 1950, two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. The police were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob, who identified the body as that of a ritually-murdered 2000-year-old man. Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history is a fascinating account of the daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Includes seventy-six black-and-white photographs.

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