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== 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.

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.

BrilliantBlunders (last edited 2019-04-03 21:38:46 by KeithLofstrom)