Brilliant Blunders
From Darwin to Einstein -
Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
Mario Livio, Multco Northwest 500 L7883b 2013
Wordy. I read two chapters, mostly skimmed.
The mistakes are:
- Darwin: Blended heredity
- Kelvin: Age of the Earth
- Pauling: DNA
- Hoyle: Steady State Universe
- Einstein: Cosmological Constant (yes, no, yes? no?)
Science learns through error.