About the book: 2018 / We all know from school that Columbus discovered America, Cook discovered Australia, and Newton was the author of three famous laws . This is an axiom. But history knows the phenomenon of “multiple discovery,” when for some reason the inventor was forgotten, and his discovery was attributed to another person. This book will tell you who really discovered America, found the polio vaccine, invented radio, telephone, electronic television and the steam locomotive, who is the author of the method for solving cubic equations and the periodic table of chemical elements…