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100 _aLivio, Mario, 1945-
245 _aBrilliant blunders :
_bfrom Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
_cMario Livio (Author)
260 _aNew York
_bSimon & Schuster
_c2013
300 _a341 pages
_billustrations
_c24 cm
505 _aMistakes 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
520 _a"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"
650 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology
650 _aErrors, Scientific
700 _aAudouze, Jean
700 _aEekelen, Marian van
700 _aWerner, Marcus
887 _2CamTech Library
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