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 breakthrough...
| Main Author: | Livio, Mario, 1945- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2013.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.