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Author Livio, Mario, 1945- author

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

Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  500 .L764b    AVAILABLE  
 Farmington Stacks  Q172.5.E77 L58 2013    AVAILABLE  
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Phys Descr 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"-- Provided by publisher
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index
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
Subject Errors, Scientific
OCLC # 800024790
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