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

"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, es...

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Main Author:	Livio, Mario, 1945-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955 Errors, Scientific. Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron > 1824-1907 Pauling, Linus, > 1901-1994 Hoyle, Fred, > 1915-2001
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