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![Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science by Peter Atkins](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOUlQb2c9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ae98a39cb7bfac2531778f657148a9030161f2fc/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Galileo's%20Finger-%20The%20Ten%20Great%20Ideas%20of%20Science.jpg)
388 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780198609414
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 16 September 2004
Description
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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388 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780198609414
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 16 September 2004
Description
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...