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100 1 _aLivio, Mario
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222 _aGeneralia Collection
245 1 0 _aBrilliant Blunders :
_bFrom Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed our Understanding of Life and the Universe
_cMario Livio.
260 _aNew York:
_bSimon & Schuster ,
_c2014
300 _a341 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
505 0 _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 0 _aErrors, Scientific.
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650 7 _aSCIENCE / General.
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650 7 _aSCIENCE / History.
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650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
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