Brilliant Blunders

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Brilliant Blunders

Author	: Mario Livio
File Size	: 48,7 Mb
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Language	: English
Release Date	: 27 May 2014
ISBN	: 9781439192375
Pages	: 352 pages

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"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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