Galileo's Finger
The Ten Great Ideas of Science
(Sprache: Englisch)
Galileo's Finger is quite simply the best introduction to modern scientific concepts that has ever been written. Taking its cue from C.P. Snow's remark that 'not knowing the second law of thermodynamics is like never having read a work by Shakespeare', by...
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Galileo's Finger is quite simply the best introduction to modern scientific concepts that has ever been written. Taking its cue from C.P. Snow's remark that 'not knowing the second law of thermodynamics is like never having read a work by Shakespeare', by reading this book you will become literate in modern science. The ten great ideas it introduces with brilliant imagery range from natural selection through quantum theory to curved spacetime. Never before have these core ideas of modern civilization been presented in so accessible and engaging a manner.
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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 contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness of Galileo's symbolic finger for revealing the nature of our universe, our world, and ourselves.
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- Prologue: the emergence of understanding
- 1: Evolution: the emergence of complexity
- 2: DNA: the rationalization of biology
- 3: Energy: the universalization of accountancy
- 4: Entropy: the spring of change
- 5: Atoms: the reduction of matter
- 6: Symmetry: the quantification of beauty
- 7: Quanta: the simplification of understanding
- 8: Cosmology: the globalization of reality
- 9: Spacetime: the arena of action
- 10: Arithmetic: the limitation of explanation
- Epilogue: the future of understanding
- Further Reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Peter W. Atkins
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter W. Atkins
- 2004, 398 Seiten, Masse: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198609418
- ISBN-13: 9780198609414
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.2004
Sprache:
Englisch
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