Galileo's finger: the ten great ideas of science/
Peter Atkins
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- vi, 388 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
The emergence of understanding -- Evolution : the emergence of complexity -- DNA : the rationalization of biology -- Energy : the universalization of accountancy -- Entropy : the spring of change -- Atoms : the reduction of matter -- Symmetry : the quantification of beauty -- Quanta : the simplification of understanding -- Cosmology : the globalization of reality -- Spacetime : the arena of action -- Arithmetic : the limits of reason -- The future of understanding.