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

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Livio, Mario, 1945-

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Simon & Schuster 2013Description: 341 pages illustrations 24 cmISBN:

9781439192375

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DDC classification:

500 WER

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

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 science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	CamTech Library	General Collections	500 WER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Available		CamTech 001105

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"

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