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His family cut stone in Salzburg for three generations. Christian Doppler was too frail to lift it, so he was sent off to do arithmetic instead, which everyone agreed was a lesser calling. In May 1842, in a half-empty room in Prague, he stood up before a learned society and explained why the...

On the night of 25 March 1655, a young Dutchman aimed a telescope he had ground himself at Saturn and noticed a faint point of light beside it. He wrote it down and went to bed. That point was Titan, and while he watched it, methane rain was falling into rivers that had been cutting channels...

Nobody read him. Not one of his discoveries entered science through him. Every single one had to be found again, from scratch, by people who had never heard his name.This is a book about what that costs — and about the method that produced the discoveries in the first place. Leonardo da Vinci...