Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
Livio, Mario, 1945-
Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe Mario Livio (Author) - New York Simon & Schuster 2013 - 341 pages illustrations 24 cm
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
"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"
9781439192375
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology
Errors, Scientific
500 WER
Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe Mario Livio (Author) - New York Simon & Schuster 2013 - 341 pages illustrations 24 cm
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
"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"
9781439192375
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology
Errors, Scientific
500 WER