Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science by Peter Atkins

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Peter Atkins

388 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of cont...

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