Brilliant Blunders : : From Darwin to Einstein--Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed our Understanding of Life and the Universe
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Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which it 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.
"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.
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Science History submitted by SolaireFQ on July 19, 2016, 7:28pm This book is a good read. It focuses on several scientists and the 'mistakes' that they made. I thought that some of the writing was forced by needing to fit the stories to blunders but overall it was well written and entertaining.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781439192368 (hbk.)
1439192367 (hbk.)
SUBJECTS
Errors, Scientific.