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Scientific Blunders Us Edition
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Author : Random House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-08-01
Scientific Blunders Us Edition written by Random House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-01 with categories.
A History Of Some Scientific Blunders
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Author : George McCready Price
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
A History Of Some Scientific Blunders written by George McCready Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Evolution categories.
Scientific Blunders Uk Edit
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Author : Random House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-08-01
Scientific Blunders Uk Edit written by Random House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-01 with categories.
Scientific Blunders
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Author : R. M. Youngson
language : en
Publisher: Constable
Release Date : 1998
Scientific Blunders written by R. M. Youngson and has been published by Constable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Errors, Scientific categories.
An account of the errors into which seemingly infallible humans have fallen, whether through obstinacy, arrogance or carelessness. Examples investigated include the Piltdown Man hoax and the Tay Bridge collapse.
Scientific Blunders Uk
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Author : Random House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-08-01
Scientific Blunders Uk written by Random House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-01 with categories.
Brilliant Blunders
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Author : Mario Livio
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-05-14
Brilliant Blunders written by Mario Livio and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Science categories.
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. Darwin’s theory of natural selection shouldn’t have worked, according to the prevailing beliefs of his time. Lord Kelvin gravely miscalculated the age of the earth. Linus Pauling, the world’s premier chemist, constructed an erroneous model for DNA in his haste to beat the competition to publication. 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). And Albert Einstein speculated incorrectly about the forces of the universe—and that speculation opened the door to brilliant conceptual leaps. As Mario Livio luminously explains in this “thoughtful meditation on the course of science itself” (The New York Times Book Review), these five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on earth, the evolution of the earth, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. “Thoughtful, well-researched, and beautifully written” (The Washington Post), Brilliant Blunders is a wonderfully insightful examination of the psychology of five fascinating scientists—and the mistakes as well as the achievements that made them famous.
Brilliant Blunders
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Author : Mario Livio
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Brilliant Blunders written by Mario Livio and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"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"--
Getting It Right In Science And Medicine
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Author : Hans R. Kricheldorf
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-31
Getting It Right In Science And Medicine written by Hans R. Kricheldorf and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with Science categories.
This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research! Hans Kricheldorf explains that most of the great scientific achievements are based on an iterative process (an ‘innate self-healing mechanism’): errors are committed, being checked over and over again, through which finally new findings and knowledge can arise. New ideas are often first confronted with refusal. This is so not only in real life, but also in scientific and medical research. The author outlines in this book how great ideas had to ripen over time before winning recognition and being accepted. The book showcases in an entertaining way, but without schadenfreude, that even some of the most famous discoverers may appear in completely different light, when regarding errors they have committed in their work. This book is divided into two parts. The first part creates a fundament for the discussion and understanding by introducing important concepts, terms and definitions, such as (natural) sciences and scientific research, laws of nature, paradigm shift, and progress (in science). It compares natural sciences with other scientific disciplines, such as historical research or sociology, and examines the question if scientific research can generate knowledge of permanent validity. The second part contains a collection of famous fallacies and errors from medicine, biology, chemistry, physics and geology, and how they were corrected. Readers will be astonished and intrigued what meanders had to be explored in some cases before scientists realized facts, which are today’s standard and state-of-the-art of science and technology. This is an entertaining and amusing, but also highly informative book not only for scientists and specialists, but for everybody interested in science, research, their progress, and their history!
Top 10 Biggest Failures In Science
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Author : Mark Tejeiro
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-08-20
Top 10 Biggest Failures In Science written by Mark Tejeiro and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-20 with categories.
Science is a human endeavor, and as such, it is prone to errors and mistakes. Sometimes, these mistakes are due to faulty experiments, flawed assumptions, or misinterpretations of data. Other times, they are the result of fraud, bias, or dishonesty. However, science also has a self-correcting mechanism that allows it to identify and rectify its errors over time. Therefore, mistakes in science are not necessarily a sign of failure, but rather an opportunity for learning and improvement. In this book, you will find my personal candidates for the most significant or notorious scientific blunders in history
Scientific Dumbology
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Author : Robert M. Youngson
language : en
Publisher: Magpie Books
Release Date : 2006
Scientific Dumbology written by Robert M. Youngson and has been published by Magpie Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Errors, Scientific categories.
Examples investigated include : early scientific blunders -- the flat earth theory, earth-centered universe, rejection of Copernican theory ; evolution ; Piltdown man ; Tay Bridge collapse ; Chernobyl ; Hubble telescope ; Challenger space shuttle disaster ; cold fussion ; the CIA and UFOs ; great Lamarck blunder ; who was G.W. Sleeper? ; what killed the dinosaurs ; perpetual motion ; n-ray ; ether ; Euclid got it wrong ; destruction of Alan Turing ; millenium date ; Alchemy ; Isaac Newton, alchemist ; protein gene ; Francis Galton ; Lysenko ; SV40 near miss ; magnets for toothache ; opium ; Charcot shaker and Tourett trembler ; rotten fish as a cause of leprosy ; Anna O. ; Hans Selye and the effects of stress ; Rorschach blot ; Bhopal ; breeder reactor ; Galileo and the Inquisition, etc.