Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science Vicky Pattison Despite the Republic's failure of

Despite the Republic's failure of 1851–2

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Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science Vicky Pattison Despite the Republic's failure ofWhy 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