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In the Name of Science

An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present

by Martin Gardner

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

Description

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None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of In the Name of Science (1952). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Parapsychology and psychical research, UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact, Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology

Subjects: Occultism, Miscellanea, Unidentified flying objects, Extrasensory perception, Science, Lost continents, Common fallacies, Dianetics

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology, Parapsychology and psychical research, and UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Extrasensory perception”. Retained metadata contains “Extrasensory perception” in the subject metadata.

    • “Extrasensory perception”· via Open Library
    • “Extrasensory perception”· in subject
  • UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Unidentified flying objects”. Retained metadata contains “Unidentified flying objects” in the subject metadata.

    • “Unidentified flying objects”· via Open Library
    • “Unidentified flying objects”· in subject
  • Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Lost continents”. Retained metadata contains “Lost continents” in the subject metadata.

    • “Lost continents”· via Open Library
    • “Lost continents”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 15 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Fads & fallacies

1986New American LibraryEnglish—Borrowable

Subjects

11 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 15 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL459956W
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