by Peter Atkins · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467011104
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«El dedo de Galileo» is Peter Atkins's popular science essay, published by Espasa in paperback (436 pages, in Spanish).
It covers the ten central ideas of modern science: evolution by natural selection, heredity encoded in DNA, conservation of energy, entropy, the atomic structure of matter, the universe, and mathematical reasoning. Atkins presents them clearly and accessibly, connecting them with daily life and our understanding of the world.
Published in 2003 with the subtitle «Las diez grandes ideas de la ciencia»; translated by Inés Belaustegui Trías and Carmen Martínez Gimeno.
For readers interested in popular science and the history of ideas, seeking a clear approach to the great concepts of science.
Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.
