TY - GEN AU - Atkins, Peter TI - Galileo's finger: the ten great ideas of science SN - 9780198609414 U1 - 500 PY - 2003/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Discoveries in science KW - Science N1 - 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 ER -