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Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.

Livio, Mario, 1945- (Author).

Summary:

"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe."--Publisher information.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1439192367
  • ISBN: 9781439192368
  • Physical Description: 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for Big Bang -- Same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space.

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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001.
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907.
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994.
Errors, Scientific.

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