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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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2013.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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