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

Author/creator Livio, Mario, 1945- author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Info New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Copyright Notice ©2013
Description341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
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Subject(s)
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- John Lehman, donor.
LCCN 2012037732
ISBN9781439192368 (hardback)
ISBN1439192367 (hardback)
Standard identifier# 40022472675
Stock numberSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442

Available Items

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Laupus Books - Stacks Q 172.5 E77 L788 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold