http://oddbooks.co.uk/taxonomy/term/2 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/other-history <p><p><img width="200" height="299" align="right" alt="The Other History" src="/files/images/oddbooks/lindsay1.jpg" />As a schoolboy I did not do well at History. Maybe things are different now, but in those far-off days to succeed in the subject one had to be able to memorise a large number of seemingly arbitrary, unrelated facts. I found the lack of pattern in the subject an obstacle to understanding, and turned for comfort to Maths, where all is clean and tidy.</p></p><p><a href="http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/other-history">read more</a></p> http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/other-history#comments Inexact Science Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:21:38 +0100 Alfred Armstrong 934 at http://oddbooks.co.uk http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/cooke.html <p><img width="196" height="298" border="0" align="right" alt="EINSTEIN DOESN'T WORK HERE ANYMORE" src="/files/images/oddbooks/cooke.jpg" /></p> <p>This is a beautiful example of what might be called dilettante physics: science conducted as if thoroughness, accuracy and care were optional extras to the process. Maurice B. Cooke (with the help of two unnamed collaborators) offers an alternative set of theories to replace the models of modern physics, because, he says:</p><p><a href="http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/cooke.html">read more</a></p> Inexact Science Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:59:44 +0000 Alfred Armstrong 88 at http://oddbooks.co.uk http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/wcwright.html <h3>[Walter C Wright, Carlton Press, 1979]</h3> <p><img width="103" hspace="8" height="156" border="0" align="left" src="/files/images/oddbooks/wcwright.gif" alt="Gravity is a Push, by Walter C. Wright, Jr." /></p><p><a href="http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/wcwright.html">read more</a></p> Inexact Science Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:59:44 +0000 Alfred Armstrong 139 at http://oddbooks.co.uk http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/winterflood.html <p>The author, a retired optical engineer, published this historically negligible work himself. It was a labour of love, to the point of his hand-colouring some of the diagrams, by the look of it with felt-tipped pens. An unusually determined man, we must conclude, who set about his task of demolishing Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity with some gusto and a ready supply of exclamation marks:-</p><p><a href="http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/winterflood.html">read more</a></p> Inexact Science Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:59:44 +0000 Alfred Armstrong 143 at http://oddbooks.co.uk http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/quark.html <p><img width="167" height="250" border="0" align="right" alt="The Wind Systems in the Universe" src="/files/images/oddbooks/quark.jpg" /></p> <p>This book has the distinction of being one of the stupidest attempts at theoretical physics I have ever read. Like <a href="wcwright.html">Walter C Wright</a>, Quark has an unusual explanation of gravity, but his is even dumber. Here it is:</p> <blockquote> <p>The force that holds things together on a moving body is nothing but atmospheric pressure on the moving body.</p><p><a href="http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/quark.html">read more</a></p> Inexact Science Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:59:44 +0000 Alfred Armstrong 125 at http://oddbooks.co.uk http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/westfield.html <p><img width="210" height="303" border="0" align="right" alt="Does the Earth Rotate? NO!" src="/files/images/oddbooks/westfield.jpg" /></p><p><a href="http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/westfield.html">read more</a></p> Inexact Science Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:59:44 +0000 Alfred Armstrong 142 at http://oddbooks.co.uk