Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe /
This book describes how five famous scientists actually made major errors in the interpretation of their data and how the further investigations of these mistakes led to scientific breakthroughs in such disciplines as biology, medicine, and cosmology. Drawing on the lives of these five great scienti...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2013.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of 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.