Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein--colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
Book
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
"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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- 10 of 10 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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- ISBN: 9781439192368 :
- ISBN: 1439192367 :
- ISBN: 9781439192375 (pbk. : 2014) :
- Physical Description: 352
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, May 2013.
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