by Peter Atkins · OUP Oxford · tapa dura · ISBN 9780198606642
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«Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science» is Peter Atkins's popular science essay, published by OUP Oxford in hardcover (380 pages).
Peter Atkins unpacks the ten great ideas of modern science: evolution, genetic inheritance, energy, entropy, the atomic nature of matter, symmetry, wave-particle duality, the expansion of the universe, and the curvature of spacetime. Galileo's finger, preserved in Florence, pointed the way to modern science.
Text in English, originally published in 2003; the hardcover edition includes bibliography and index.
Recommended for general readers interested in the history of science and science popularization, with no prior training required.
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.
