Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science Sarah Stacey on the trail of a

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Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science Sarah Stacey on the trail of aWhy 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. Galileo's Finger takes the reader on an