Brilliant Blunders : from Darwin to Einstein--colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe

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  • Author: Livio, Mario
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    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.

    Genre: Science
    Original Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013 , Victoria Park, Western Australia , Association for the Blind of WA
    Language(s): English
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    9781439192368

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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.

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Science
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013

Victoria Park, Western Australia

Association for the Blind of WA

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9781439192368

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