Lost Science Astonishing Tales of Forgotten Genius

Popular science writer Kitty Ferguson investigates little-explored byroads in the history of science, from Kepler s nearly disastrous venture into science fiction to a twentieth-century experiment involving cats and rocket fuel. She introduces long-forgotten discoverers and takes us on astounding adventures with the likes of Jesuit astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest, who invented the first automobile and won a bizarre astronomy competition in seventeenth-century China against his former torturer."