WHAT IS ACTUALLY KNOWN

The Black Death, the Elements, Vitamins, Vaccines and Antibiotics

von Cornelis van Houte

616 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What Is Actually Known: The Black Death, the Elements, Vitamins, Vaccines and Antibiotics in 500 Facts collects five complete and unabridged books by Cornelis van Houte, exploring the profound distance between what the evidence establishes and what everybody repeats.

Drawn from published, peer-reviewed, and archival material, this omnibus volume takes a rigorous, uncompromised look at five foundational bodies of human knowledge:

- The Black Death in 100 Facts: Investigating what ancient DNA, bioarchaeology, and economic history have revealed about the 1347-1351 pandemic-and why the popular story has barely moved since the 1960s.- The Periodic Table in 100 Facts: Uncovering the actual 1869 breakthrough behind Mendeleev's work, moving past the myths of card games and dreams to see how matter was truly ordered.- Vitamins in 100 Facts: Tracking the diseases of absence, the historic sailors' struggles with scurvy, and the true science of fortification versus modern supplements.- Vaccines in 100 Facts: Detailing how vaccines work, the history before Jenner, and the rigorous journey of scale, eradication, and managing public trust.- Antibiotics in 100 Facts: Examining the golden age of discovery, how resistance actually works, and why delivering existing drugs is our most critical challenge today.

Written for the general reader, each book runs in eight structured parts with distinct, numbered facts. Whether exploring medieval labour markets inverted for five generations, the synthetic elements, or the history of medical science, What Is Actually Known offers an uncompromising and evidence-driven guide to history and science reporting.

Dr. Cornelis van Houte

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175876377
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published