These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists
arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein's stubbornness leading him
to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and miss an important deduction from his
own theory and Newton missing the important deduction from one of his most celebrated
discoveries. Copernicus and Galileo are found suppressing information. A theme running
throughout the book is the notion that what is obvious today was not so in the past. Scientists
seen in their historical context shatter myths and show them to be less modern than we often
like to think of them.
