In Praise of Error (ePub)
Productive Mistakes in Culture, Cuisine and Science
(Sprache: Englisch)
Many people know that Columbus wouldn't have dared to sail across the Atlantic if he had been aware how far the way to Asia really is. But there exist a lot more errors which turned out to be useful. Great thinkers like Copernicus and Einstein, but also...
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Many people know that Columbus wouldn't have dared to sail across the Atlantic if he had been aware how far the way to Asia really is. But there exist a lot more errors which turned out to be useful. Great thinkers like Copernicus and Einstein, but also ordinary people made mistakes which changed our world in many ways.
A collection of the most interesting and useful errors in history, science, kitchen and art.
Contents:
Errors - always negative?
To err as a program? Trial and error or: What geniuses and rainworms have in common
Mistakes? How delicious! - Potato crisps and cauliflower
The great fried potatoes failure
Tofu, cheese, wine & Co.
Cauliflower and beyond
In wine there is error
Copernicus or: a rounder rounding
... and Kepler
Discovering America with Aristotle
El Dorado: the mirage of greed
Dreams, lies and literature: Schliemann
Creative misunderstandings in literature
Kandinsky or: The right wrong view
Only relatively right assumptions: theory of relativity
Unsuccessful, but still a masterpiece: the Michelson-Morley experiment
A bit of theory on error
Sloppiness saves the lives of millions
Can false prophecies be useful?
A collection of the most interesting and useful errors in history, science, kitchen and art.
Contents:
Errors - always negative?
To err as a program? Trial and error or: What geniuses and rainworms have in common
Mistakes? How delicious! - Potato crisps and cauliflower
The great fried potatoes failure
Tofu, cheese, wine & Co.
Cauliflower and beyond
In wine there is error
Copernicus or: a rounder rounding
... and Kepler
Discovering America with Aristotle
El Dorado: the mirage of greed
Dreams, lies and literature: Schliemann
Creative misunderstandings in literature
Kandinsky or: The right wrong view
Only relatively right assumptions: theory of relativity
Unsuccessful, but still a masterpiece: the Michelson-Morley experiment
A bit of theory on error
Sloppiness saves the lives of millions
Can false prophecies be useful?
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Derek Mueller
- 2016, 95 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: idb
- ISBN-10: 3961501750
- ISBN-13: 9783961501755
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2016
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