Bernard J. T. Jones, Vicent J. Martínez, Virginia Trimble.
The Reinvention of Science: slaying the dragons of dogma and ignorance.
World Scientific. 2024
What do the luminiferous ether, phlogiston, the homunculus, and crystalline spheres have in common?
None of them ever actually existed, but belief in their reality held up progress,
just as dragons drawn on the edges of a map discouraged exploration.
The Reinvention of Science contains an extensive history of how science evolved
through controversy, suppression, and the desire to maintain the status quo.