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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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The item Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein-- colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe, Mario Livio represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Contents
-
- Mistakes and blunders
- The origin
- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve
- How old is the Earth?
- Certainty generally is an illusion
- Interpreter of life
- Whose DNA is it anyway?
- B for Big Bang
- The same throughout eternity?
- The "biggest blunder"
- Out of empty space
- Isbn
- 9781439192368
- Label
- Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein-- colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
- Title
- Brilliant blunders
- Title remainder
- from Darwin to Einstein-- colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe
- Statement of responsibility
- Mario Livio
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Livio, Mario
- Dewey number
- 500
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Q172.5.E77
- LC item number
- L58 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Errors, Scientific
- SCIENCE / General
- SCIENCE / History
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
- Label
- Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein-- colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe, Mario Livio
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-323) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is an illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for Big Bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space
- Control code
- 1428038
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439192368
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2012037732
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1428038
- (OCoLC)800024790
- Label
- Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein-- colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe, Mario Livio
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-323) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is an illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for Big Bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space
- Control code
- 1428038
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439192368
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2012037732
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1428038
- (OCoLC)800024790
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