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

Title
  1. Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.
Published by
  1. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Supplementary content
  1. Cover image
Author
  1. Livio, Mario, 1945-

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Description
  1. 341 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Subject
  1. SCIENCE / History
  2. SCIENCE / General
  3. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
  4. Errors, Scientific
Contents
  1. Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for big bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space.
Call number
  1. JFE 13-2045
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
Author
  1. Livio, Mario, 1945-
Title
  1. Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.
Publisher
  1. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Edition
  1. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
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  1. Cover image
LCCN
  1. 2012037732
ISBN
  1. 9781439192368
  2. 1439192367
Research call number
  1. JFE 13-2045
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