Edison's Ghosts

Katie Spalding

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Author
Katie Spalding
Publish Date
2023-05-16
Subtitle
The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
342
Publisher Name
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10
0316529524
ISBN-13
9780316529525
citemno
282019
Subject
Sciences
Edition
1
SKU
9780316529525

Description

"Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition."--Amazon.com.