It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow by Surendra Verma
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"Just how did the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? Surendra Verma investigates the eureka moments, the serendipities and the plain errors that have peppered science's last 2,000 years. From the 6th century BC and Pythagora's claims that the world was round, to the 1989 announcment of nuclear fusion in a glass jar, Surendra Verma trawls through history in search of the more human side of science. Read about Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer ; the Riemann hypothesis, mathematics' greatest unsolved problem ; William Preece, a Post Office chief engineer who declared that 'Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys' ; the forgery of Piltdown Man, the fossil thought to be the 'missing link' ; how Vesalius scotched the idea that men have one rib fewer that women ; and much more, including the bane of mosquitoes everywhere, the insecticide DDT ... "- back cover.
The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow by Surendra Verma is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.
This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow aloud.
The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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