Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science by Peter Atkins
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ISBN: 9780198606642
Oxford University Press, 05 June 2003
Hardcover, 388 pages
Book description
Galileo’s Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science explores the central ideas that define modern science through the metaphor of Galileo’s finger — symbolising the pivotal shift toward empirical observation and the scientific method. Peter W. Atkins takes readers on a revealing journey through ten foundational scientific concepts, from evolution and DNA to energy conservation, entropy, atoms, symmetry, quantum theory, spacetime, and beyond, explaining how these ideas transformed our understanding of the universe.