text Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein--colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
- 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 scien... Read more
- Contents
- Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is an illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for big bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- ... Read more
- Format
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- Description
- 341 p.;
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster 2013
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Woodmere (Main Branch) | 500 LIV in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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TADL-WOOD | 500 LIV in Adult Non-fiction | Available |