Chaline, Eric
History's Worst Predictions : And The People Who Made Them Eric Chaline - Miller Point NSW Pier 9 2011 - 256 Pages 23X17 cm PB
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"Organized chronologically from Antiquity to modern times and beyond, History's Worst Predictions excavates the strata of history to expose the credulity and absurdity of humanity's prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life--religion, politics, science, economy, culture, and war--has provided material for the most far-fetched and inaccurate of predictions"--
9781741969887
Social prediction.
History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
Forecasting -- History -- Miscellanea.
Quotations, English
Forecasting
Prophecies
003.2
History's Worst Predictions : And The People Who Made Them Eric Chaline - Miller Point NSW Pier 9 2011 - 256 Pages 23X17 cm PB
Include Illustrations
"Organized chronologically from Antiquity to modern times and beyond, History's Worst Predictions excavates the strata of history to expose the credulity and absurdity of humanity's prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life--religion, politics, science, economy, culture, and war--has provided material for the most far-fetched and inaccurate of predictions"--
9781741969887
Social prediction.
History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
Forecasting -- History -- Miscellanea.
Quotations, English
Forecasting
Prophecies
003.2