Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses

"Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a gen...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Spalding, Katie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Boston ; London Little, Brown and Company 2023
Ausgabe:First edition
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!

MARC

LEADER 00000nam a2200000 c 4500
001 BV049064088
003 DE-604
005 20231010
007 t|
008 230725s2023 xx a||| b||| 00||| eng d
020 |a 9780316529525  |c hardback  |9 978-0-316-52952-5 
035 |a (OCoLC)1390439580 
035 |a (DE-599)BVBBV049064088 
040 |a DE-604  |b ger  |e rda 
041 0 |a eng 
049 |a DE-12 
084 |a HIST  |q DE-12  |2 fid 
100 1 |a Spalding, Katie  |e Verfasser  |0 (DE-588)1302782002  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Edison's ghosts  |b the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses  |c Katie Spalding 
250 |a First edition 
264 1 |a New York ; Boston ; London  |b Little, Brown and Company  |c 2023 
300 |a 342 Seiten  |b Illustrationen  |c 24,3 cm 
336 |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
505 8 |a The mathematical cult leader Pythagoras, and his incredibly stupid death -- Confucius was an ugly nerd with low self-esteem -- Never, ever hire Leonardo da Vinci -- Galileo utterly fails to read the room -- The entirely unbelievable life of Tycho Brahe -- When René Descartes got baked -- Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone -- Mozart uses his superstar status to tell us all to kiss his arse ... over and over again -- Benjamin Franklin uses world-changing technology to prank friends, self -- Émilie du Châtelet cares not for your social mores, and she will fight you in her underwear to prove it -- Johann Christian Reil invents psychiatry and things get really weird really quickly -- Napoleon Bonaparte's fluffiest foe -- Lord Byron, the patron saint of fuckboys -- Ada Lovelace's (husband's) family jewels -- Galois hunting -- John Couch Adams ignores his mail, loses Neptune -- You really wouldn't want to hang out with Karl Marx -- Charles Darwin: glutton; worm dad; murderer? -- James Glaisher, the Victorian weatherman who nearly became an astronaut -- Sigmund Freud used cocaine so much he thought numbers wanted to kill him -- Arthur Conan Doyle gets pranked so hard he claims fairies exist -- Thomas Edison's lesser-known invention: dial-a-ghost -- Real-life supervillain Nicola Tesla takes the term "pigeon fancying" a bit too literally -- Marie Curie defies all the odds to accidentally poison both herself and thousands of strangers -- Albert Einstein: public nuisance, love rat -- Kurt Gödel, the Disney princess who broke time -- Maya Angelou, in: Stop! or my mom will shoot -- Ernest Hemingway may have been the worst double agent ever -- Yukio Mishima and the shortest, gayest fascist coup in history -- NASA forgets about women, toilets and the metric system 
520 3 |a "Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition."--Amazon.com 
648 7 |a Geschichte  |2 gnd  |9 rswk-swf 
650 0 7 |a Anekdote  |0 (DE-588)4142399-9  |2 gnd  |9 rswk-swf 
650 0 7 |a Wissenschaftler  |0 (DE-588)4066567-7  |2 gnd  |9 rswk-swf 
650 0 7 |a Genie  |0 (DE-588)4020147-8  |2 gnd  |9 rswk-swf 
653 0 |a Eccentrics and eccentricities / Anecdotes 
653 0 |a Gifted persons / Anecdotes 
653 0 |a Genius / Anecdotes 
653 0 |a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions 
653 0 |a Eccentrics and eccentricities 
653 0 |a Genius 
653 0 |a Gifted persons 
653 6 |a Anecdotes 
653 6 |a Biography 
653 6 |a Humor 
653 6 |a Anecdotes 
653 6 |a Biographies 
653 6 |a Humor 
653 6 |a Anecdotes 
653 6 |a Biographies 
653 6 |a Humor 
655 7 |0 (DE-588)4006804-3  |a Biografie  |2 gnd-content 
689 0 0 |a Wissenschaftler  |0 (DE-588)4066567-7  |D s 
689 0 1 |a Genie  |0 (DE-588)4020147-8  |D s 
689 0 2 |a Anekdote  |0 (DE-588)4142399-9  |D s 
689 0 3 |a Geschichte  |A z 
689 0 |5 DE-604 
856 4 2 |m Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment  |q application/pdf  |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034326177&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA  |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis 
940 1 |q BSB_NED_20231005 
942 1 1 |c 370.9  |e 22/bsb  |g 181 
942 1 1 |c 509  |e 22/bsb  |g 181 
943 1 |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-034326177 

Datensatz im Suchindex

_version_ 1819592836857724928
adam_text Contents Introduction 1 1. The Mathematica! Cult Leader Pythagoras, and His Incredibly Stupid Death 2. Confucius Was an Ugly Nerd with Low Self-Esteem 18 3. Never, Ever Hire Leonardo da Vinci 26 4. Galileo Utterly Fails to Read the Room 36 5. The Entirely Unbelievable Life of Tycho Brahe 49 6. When René Descartes Got Baked 62 7. Isaac Newton and the Philosopher’s Stone 72 8. Mozart Uses His Superstar Status to Tell Us All toKiss 84 His Arse ... Over and Over Again 9 9. Benjamin Franklin Uses World-Changing Technology to Prank Friends, Self 10. Émilie du Châtelet Cares Not for Your Social Mores, 93 100 and She Will Fight You in Her Underwear to Prove It 11. Johann Christian Reil Invents Psychiatry and 110 Things Get Really Weird Really Quickly 12. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Fluffiest Foe 120 13. Lord Byron, the Patron Saint of Fuckboys 125 14. Ada Lovelace’s (Husband’s) Family Jewels 137 15. Galois Hunting 144 16. John Couch Adams Ignores His Mail, Loses Neptune 154 17. You Really Wouldn’t Want to Hang Out with Karl Marx 165 18. Charles Darwin: Glutton; Worm Dad; Murderer? 174 19. James Glaisher, the Victorian Weatherman Who Nearly Became an Astronaut 183 20. Sigmund Freud Used Cocaine So Much He Thought Numbers Wanted to Kill Him 195 21. Arthur Conan Doyle Gets Pranked So Hard He Claims Fairies Exist 206 22. Thomas Edison’s Lesser-Known Invention: Dial-a-Ghost 219 23. Real-Life Supervillain Nicola Tesla Takes the Term ‘Pigeon Fancying’ a Bit Too Literally 229 24. Marie Curie Defies All the Odds to Accidentally Poison Both Herself and Thousands of Strangers 235 25. Albert Einstein: Public Nuisance, Love Rat 242 26. Kurt Gödel, the Disney Princess Who Broke Time 254 27. Maya Angelou, in: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot 263 28. Ernest Hemingway May Have Been the Worst Double Agent Ever 274 29. Yukio Mishima and the Shortest, Gayest Fascist Coup in History 284 30. NASA Forgets about Women, Toilets and the Metric System 293 Epilogue 305 References 307 Acknowledgements 333 Index 335
any_adam_object 1
author Spalding, Katie
author_GND (DE-588)1302782002
author_facet Spalding, Katie
author_role aut
author_sort Spalding, Katie
author_variant k s ks
building Verbundindex
bvnumber BV049064088
contents The mathematical cult leader Pythagoras, and his incredibly stupid death -- Confucius was an ugly nerd with low self-esteem -- Never, ever hire Leonardo da Vinci -- Galileo utterly fails to read the room -- The entirely unbelievable life of Tycho Brahe -- When René Descartes got baked -- Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone -- Mozart uses his superstar status to tell us all to kiss his arse ... over and over again -- Benjamin Franklin uses world-changing technology to prank friends, self -- Émilie du Châtelet cares not for your social mores, and she will fight you in her underwear to prove it -- Johann Christian Reil invents psychiatry and things get really weird really quickly -- Napoleon Bonaparte's fluffiest foe -- Lord Byron, the patron saint of fuckboys -- Ada Lovelace's (husband's) family jewels -- Galois hunting -- John Couch Adams ignores his mail, loses Neptune -- You really wouldn't want to hang out with Karl Marx -- Charles Darwin: glutton; worm dad; murderer? -- James Glaisher, the Victorian weatherman who nearly became an astronaut -- Sigmund Freud used cocaine so much he thought numbers wanted to kill him -- Arthur Conan Doyle gets pranked so hard he claims fairies exist -- Thomas Edison's lesser-known invention: dial-a-ghost -- Real-life supervillain Nicola Tesla takes the term "pigeon fancying" a bit too literally -- Marie Curie defies all the odds to accidentally poison both herself and thousands of strangers -- Albert Einstein: public nuisance, love rat -- Kurt Gödel, the Disney princess who broke time -- Maya Angelou, in: Stop! or my mom will shoot -- Ernest Hemingway may have been the worst double agent ever -- Yukio Mishima and the shortest, gayest fascist coup in history -- NASA forgets about women, toilets and the metric system
ctrlnum (OCoLC)1390439580
(DE-599)BVBBV049064088
edition First edition
era Geschichte gnd
era_facet Geschichte
format Book
fullrecord <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04853nam a2200661 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV049064088</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20231010 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t|</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">230725s2023 xx a||| b||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780316529525</subfield><subfield code="c">hardback</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-316-52952-5</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1390439580</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV049064088</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">HIST</subfield><subfield code="q">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="2">fid</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Spalding, Katie</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)1302782002</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Edison's ghosts</subfield><subfield code="b">the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses</subfield><subfield code="c">Katie Spalding</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">First edition</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">New York ; Boston ; London</subfield><subfield code="b">Little, Brown and Company</subfield><subfield code="c">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">342 Seiten</subfield><subfield code="b">Illustrationen</subfield><subfield code="c">24,3 cm</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">The mathematical cult leader Pythagoras, and his incredibly stupid death -- Confucius was an ugly nerd with low self-esteem -- Never, ever hire Leonardo da Vinci -- Galileo utterly fails to read the room -- The entirely unbelievable life of Tycho Brahe -- When René Descartes got baked -- Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone -- Mozart uses his superstar status to tell us all to kiss his arse ... over and over again -- Benjamin Franklin uses world-changing technology to prank friends, self -- Émilie du Châtelet cares not for your social mores, and she will fight you in her underwear to prove it -- Johann Christian Reil invents psychiatry and things get really weird really quickly -- Napoleon Bonaparte's fluffiest foe -- Lord Byron, the patron saint of fuckboys -- Ada Lovelace's (husband's) family jewels -- Galois hunting -- John Couch Adams ignores his mail, loses Neptune -- You really wouldn't want to hang out with Karl Marx -- Charles Darwin: glutton; worm dad; murderer? -- James Glaisher, the Victorian weatherman who nearly became an astronaut -- Sigmund Freud used cocaine so much he thought numbers wanted to kill him -- Arthur Conan Doyle gets pranked so hard he claims fairies exist -- Thomas Edison's lesser-known invention: dial-a-ghost -- Real-life supervillain Nicola Tesla takes the term "pigeon fancying" a bit too literally -- Marie Curie defies all the odds to accidentally poison both herself and thousands of strangers -- Albert Einstein: public nuisance, love rat -- Kurt Gödel, the Disney princess who broke time -- Maya Angelou, in: Stop! or my mom will shoot -- Ernest Hemingway may have been the worst double agent ever -- Yukio Mishima and the shortest, gayest fascist coup in history -- NASA forgets about women, toilets and the metric system</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">"Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition."--Amazon.com</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="648" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Geschichte</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Anekdote</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4142399-9</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Wissenschaftler</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4066567-7</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Genie</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4020147-8</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Eccentrics and eccentricities / Anecdotes</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Gifted persons / Anecdotes</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Genius / Anecdotes</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">TECHNOLOGY &amp; ENGINEERING / Inventions</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Eccentrics and eccentricities</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Genius</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Gifted persons</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Anecdotes</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Biography</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Humor</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Anecdotes</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Biographies</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Humor</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Anecdotes</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Biographies</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Humor</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="655" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4006804-3</subfield><subfield code="a">Biografie</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd-content</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Wissenschaftler</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4066567-7</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Genie</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4020147-8</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="2"><subfield code="a">Anekdote</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4142399-9</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="3"><subfield code="a">Geschichte</subfield><subfield code="A">z</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&amp;doc_library=BVB01&amp;local_base=BVB01&amp;doc_number=034326177&amp;sequence=000001&amp;line_number=0001&amp;func_code=DB_RECORDS&amp;service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="940" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="q">BSB_NED_20231005</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">370.9</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="g">181</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">509</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="g">181</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-034326177</subfield></datafield></record></collection>
genre (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content
genre_facet Biografie
id DE-604.BV049064088
illustrated Illustrated
indexdate 2024-12-24T09:48:59Z
institution BVB
isbn 9780316529525
language English
oai_aleph_id oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-034326177
oclc_num 1390439580
open_access_boolean
owner DE-12
owner_facet DE-12
physical 342 Seiten Illustrationen 24,3 cm
psigel BSB_NED_20231005
publishDate 2023
publishDateSearch 2023
publishDateSort 2023
publisher Little, Brown and Company
record_format marc
spellingShingle Spalding, Katie
Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses
The mathematical cult leader Pythagoras, and his incredibly stupid death -- Confucius was an ugly nerd with low self-esteem -- Never, ever hire Leonardo da Vinci -- Galileo utterly fails to read the room -- The entirely unbelievable life of Tycho Brahe -- When René Descartes got baked -- Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone -- Mozart uses his superstar status to tell us all to kiss his arse ... over and over again -- Benjamin Franklin uses world-changing technology to prank friends, self -- Émilie du Châtelet cares not for your social mores, and she will fight you in her underwear to prove it -- Johann Christian Reil invents psychiatry and things get really weird really quickly -- Napoleon Bonaparte's fluffiest foe -- Lord Byron, the patron saint of fuckboys -- Ada Lovelace's (husband's) family jewels -- Galois hunting -- John Couch Adams ignores his mail, loses Neptune -- You really wouldn't want to hang out with Karl Marx -- Charles Darwin: glutton; worm dad; murderer? -- James Glaisher, the Victorian weatherman who nearly became an astronaut -- Sigmund Freud used cocaine so much he thought numbers wanted to kill him -- Arthur Conan Doyle gets pranked so hard he claims fairies exist -- Thomas Edison's lesser-known invention: dial-a-ghost -- Real-life supervillain Nicola Tesla takes the term "pigeon fancying" a bit too literally -- Marie Curie defies all the odds to accidentally poison both herself and thousands of strangers -- Albert Einstein: public nuisance, love rat -- Kurt Gödel, the Disney princess who broke time -- Maya Angelou, in: Stop! or my mom will shoot -- Ernest Hemingway may have been the worst double agent ever -- Yukio Mishima and the shortest, gayest fascist coup in history -- NASA forgets about women, toilets and the metric system
Anekdote (DE-588)4142399-9 gnd
Wissenschaftler (DE-588)4066567-7 gnd
Genie (DE-588)4020147-8 gnd
subject_GND (DE-588)4142399-9
(DE-588)4066567-7
(DE-588)4020147-8
(DE-588)4006804-3
title Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses
title_auth Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses
title_exact_search Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses
title_full Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses Katie Spalding
title_fullStr Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses Katie Spalding
title_full_unstemmed Edison's ghosts the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses Katie Spalding
title_short Edison's ghosts
title_sort edison s ghosts the untold weirdness of history s greatest geniuses
title_sub the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses
topic Anekdote (DE-588)4142399-9 gnd
Wissenschaftler (DE-588)4066567-7 gnd
Genie (DE-588)4020147-8 gnd
topic_facet Anekdote
Wissenschaftler
Genie
Biografie
url http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034326177&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
work_keys_str_mv AT spaldingkatie edisonsghoststheuntoldweirdnessofhistorysgreatestgeniuses