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Brilliant Blunders Livio Mario Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this "scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book" (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the…
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Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this "scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book" (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields--but each also stumbled badly. Lord Kelvin gravely miscalculated the age of the earth. Darwin's theory of natural selection shouldn't have worked, according to the prevailing beliefs of his time.
Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle dismissed the idea of a "Big Bang" origin to the universe (ironically, the caustic name he gave to this event endured long after his erroneous objections were disproven). Linus Pauling, the world's premier chemist, constructed an erroneous model for DNA in his haste to beat the competition to publication. And Albert
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