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Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
- Title
- Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.
- Author
- Livio, Mario, 1945-
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-2045 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 341 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-2045
- ISBN
- 9781439192368
- 1439192367
- LCCN
- 2012037732
- OCLC
- 2012037732
- Author
- Livio, Mario, 1945-
- Title
- Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-2045