Galileo's Finger Free Download By Peter Atkins
| Title | : | Galileo's Finger |
| Author | : | Peter Atkins |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 388 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0198609418 |
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 univers 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 Galileo s Finger takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that embraces the ten central ideas of current science By a great idea, writes Peter Atkins, I mean a simple concept of great reach, an acorn of an idea that ramifies into a great oak tree of application, a spider of an idea that can spin a great web and draw in a feast of explanation and elucidation With wit, charm, and patience, Atkins leads the reader to an understanding of the essence of the whole of science, from evolution and the emergence of complexity, to entropy, the spring of all change in the universe from energy, the universalization of accountancy, to symmetry, the quantification of beauty and from cosmology, the globalization of reality, to spacetime, the arena of all action My intention is for us to travel to the high ridges of science, Atkins tells us As the journey progresses and I lead you carefully to the summit of understanding, you will experience the deep joy of illumination that science alone provides Galileo s Finger breaks new ground in communicating science to the general reader Here are the essential ideas of today s science, explained in magical prose
about Author
Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford and the author of about 70 books for students and a general audience His texts are market leaders around the globe A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professorships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand He was the founding chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Educa Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford and the author of about 70 books for students and a general audience His texts are market leaders around the globe A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professor ships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand He was the founding chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and was a member of IUPAC s Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division Librarian Note There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. 
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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, po
388 pagesPeter Atkins
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