Waller John. Fabulous science: fact and fiction in the history of scientific discovery

Oxford University Press, 2002. — xi, 308 p. — 9780198609391.List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What is history for?
Right for the wrong reasons
The pasteurization of spontaneous generation
‘The battle over the electron’
The eclipse of Isaac Newton: Arthur Eddington’s ‘proof’ of general relativity
Very unscientific management
The Hawthorne studies: finding what you are looking for
Conclusion to Part 1: Sins against science?
Telling science as it was
Myth in the time of cholera
‘The Priest who held the key’: Gregor Mendel
and the ratios of fact and fiction
Was Joseph Lister Mr Clean?
The Origin of Species by means of use-inheritance
‘A is for ape, B is for Bible’: science, religion, and melodrama
Painting yourself into a corner: Charles Best and the discovery of insulin
Alexander Fleming’s dirty dishes
‘A decoy of Satan’
Conclusion: Sins against history?
Notes on sources