Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science - Paperback
by Peter Atkins
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780198609414ISBN-10:198609418UPC:9780198609414Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:HistorySize:7.66 x 5.08 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC1WDWCA37
Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness of Galileo's symbolic finger for revealing the nature of our universe, our world, and ourselves.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780198609414ISBN-10:198609418UPC:9780198609414Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:HistorySize:7.66 x 5.08 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC1WDWCA37
Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of Lincoln College at Oxford University. He is the author of several world-famous chemistry textbooks. One reason why these continue to be leaders throughout the world after more than two decades is his remarkable gift for being able to explain things--especially challenging concepts--memorably and with great clarity. This gift has regularly been deployed in his books for the general reader (Richard Dawkins has described one of them, The Creation, as 'the most beautifully written popular science book ever'), but never to better effect than now, in Galileo's Finger.
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