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008			121211s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781439192375
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
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082	0	0	_a500 _223 _bLIV
100	1		_aLivio, Mario, _d1945- _92818
245	1	0	_aBrilliant Blunders : _bfrom Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / _cMario Livio.
264		1	_aNew Delhi: _bSimon & Schuster, _c2013.
300			_a341 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
505	0		_aMistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for big bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aErrors, Scientific. _92819
650		7	_aSCIENCE / General. _2bisacsh _92820
650		7	_aSCIENCE / History. _2bisacsh _92821
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology. _2bisacsh _92822
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/1247/368/9781439192368/image/lgcover.9781439192368.jpg
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