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Galileo’s Finger
The Ten Great Ideas of Science
Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: the emergence of understanding
Peter Atkins is the author of about 70 books, including the world-renowned and widely used Physical Chemistry, now in its 10th edition. He won the Grady-Stack award for science journalism in 2016. After graduating from the University of Leicester and a post-doctoral year in the University of California, Los Angeles, he returned to Oxford in 1965 as Fellow of Lincoln College and University Lecturer (later Professor) in physical chemistry. He retired in 2007, but continues to write and lecture worldwide.
ISBN-13:
9780198609414
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.05.2004
Seiten:
398
Autor:
Peter Atkins
Gewicht:
422 g
Format:
198x129x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch