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

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ISBN	9781439192368 (hbk.)
ISBN	1439192367 (hbk.)
Name	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.
Edition	1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Published	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Description	341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.
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"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects	Errors, Scientific
Subjects	Science
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Errors, Scientific . Science . See Also: Forensic sciences . Geology . Islam and science . Life sciences . Mathematics . Meteorology . Mineralogy . Natural history . Parapsychology and science . Philosophy and science . Pseudoscience . Religion and science . Space sciences . Technology . Women in science . Zoology . Authors: Livio, Mario, 1945- .