How did the work get the unusual title?
:: OvS’s reply. It is not, at least not any longer, quite so unusual to name a scientific work in this way. – Among the some early examples is an American researcher of the history of mathematics, Robert R. Newton, who, in 1977 published his thesis about ancient astronomer Ptolemy’s alleged non-precise observations. These were by Newton hint at as being fraud – then giving his book on this subject a somewhat drastic title, “The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy”. Likewise a title of a work of the English anthropologist Richard Leaky raised attention. With a pun inspired by “West Side Story” being the name of Leonard Bernsteins at that time new world-famous musical, Leaky got his thesis (American Scientist 64:174, 1976) about the earliest human beings so unexpectedly were traced in Rift Valley at Africa’s east side, subsequently made his book about this titled “East Side Story, The Origin of Humankind”. – When the English philosopher of science, Dr. Jacob Brunowski published his book (1973) wit
:: OvS’s reply. It is not, not any longer at least, quite as unusual to name a scientific work in this way. – Among the some early examples is an American researcher of the history of mathematics, Robert R. Newton, who, in 1977, published his thesis about ancient astronomer Ptolemy’s alleged non-precise observations. These were by Newton hint at as being fraud – then giving his book on this subject a somewhat drastic title, “The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy”. Likewise, a title of a book by the English anthropologist Richard Leaky raised attention. With a pun inspired by “West Side Story” being the name of Leonard Bernstein’s at that time new world-famous musical, Leaky got his thesis (American Scientist 64:174, 1976) -about the earliest human beings so unexpectedly discovered in Rift Valley at Africa’s east side – subsequently made his book about this titled “East Side Story, The Origin of Humankind”. When the English philosopher of science, Dr. Jacob Brunowski published his book (1973) w
