Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein---Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe (2013)
Livio, Mario (Author)
Simon & Schuster
Physical Details: 341 pp.; ill.
Language: English
"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"--
...MoreDescription Includes discussions of Charles Darwin, William Thomson, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein.
Essay Review Pasachoff, Naomi (2014) Assessing the Assessment of Five Fruitful Scientific Faux Pas. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 633-637).
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