Footnotes in History

By Alf B. Meier
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Published: April 03, 2011
Words: 30,364 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458160829

Short description

Some events in history are so obscured by legend that hardly anybody knows how things really happened. Some legends are self-perpetuating and facts get ignored by certain authors or are unknown to them. In chronicling history, it appears to be sufficient to parrot what somebody else said to the point that the truth just appears as footnotes.

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What they're saying about Footnotes in History:

It’s an interesting read, but in no way academic and schoolmasterly. It will, if nothing else, give you a few real, little-known facts, with which, if you’re still at school, you can really annoy your history teacher!

~Keith Kellett (Read more) What they're saying about Footnotes in History:

It’s an interesting read, but in no way academic and schoolmasterly. It will, if nothing else, give you a few real, little-known facts, with which, if you’re still at school, you can really annoy your history teacher!

~Keith Kellett
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From the Great Library of Alexandria to the airplane, from Alchemists to Engineers and from Nero to Catherine the Great, Alf B. Meier examines facets of history deeply sunk in the fog of legends... and comes to funny results at times.
He shows that one should question things that are generally accepted as history, recommending readers to investigate themselves.
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nero, aleister crowley, john dee, copernicus, great library, heron of alexandria, papin, robert boyle, savery, georg agricola, james watts, robert stephenson, nicolas joseph cugnot, richard trevithick, nikolaus otto, gottlieb daimler, carl benz, wright brothers, sir george cayley, clement ader, sir hiram maxim, alberto santos dumont, graf ferdinand von zeppelin, louis bleriot, flat earth society, mercator, galileo galilei, saint albert magno, saint thomas of aquino, konrad zuse, alan turing, johann faust, jeromino scotto, abbe trithemius, alessandro comte di cagliostro, paracelsus, gilles de rais, de montespan, catherine la voisin, abbe guiborg

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