Galileo's Finger

By - Atkins, Peter William, (1940- ...)

Floor - Floor 2

Published - Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003

ISBN 10 - 0198609418

ISBN 13 - 9780198609414

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Science

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 500 ATK

Physical Description - vi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes - Includes Index

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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.

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