Fortuitous Discoveries
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Fortuitous Discoveries

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Jean-Michel Billioud

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256 pages
23 x 29,7 cm ~ 9“ x 11“ /4
251 illustrations

 

The coincidences that changed the world

Some discoveries or inventions were not meant to happen. And yet, an unforeseen event created the conditions for their outbreak.
Antibiotics? A poorly cleaned laboratory. Viagra? An unexpected side effect. Post-it? A failed glue. Chanel No. 5? A handling error. Theory of relativity? A problem with railway clocks. America? A navigator mistake.
Illustrated with exceptional documents, this book full of surprises explores the unfatho- mable coincidences that have shaped our world.

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Jean-Michel Billioud

Jean-Michel Billioud is a French writer and historian. He studied at the École de Provence in Marseille from 1971 to 1982. After completing degrees in journalism at the Institut Français de Presse and in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, he put his pen to work in the fields of press, broadcasting (radio and TV), and publishing. Since 2021, he has served as Head of Communications at the French Ministry of National Education and Youth. He has published around twenty works of fiction, picture books, and biographical novels, as well as several essays and over a hundred nonfiction titles for readers young and old — always with two main goals: to explain as clearly as possible and to rescue from oblivion what time seeks to erase. His favorite themes include sports, history, culture, and ecology.

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