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Jacket illustration: Bridgeman/Apple: Pyrus malus, c.1568, by J.le Moyne de Morgues (c.1530-88).
Jacket design: Graciela Galup
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Newton’s apple and other myths about science / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Errors, Scientific—Popular works. 2. Errors, Scientific—History—Popular works. 3. Science—History—Popular works. I. Numbers, Ronald L., editor. II. Kampourakis, Kostas, editor.
Q172.5.E77N49 2015
001.96—dc23 2015014096