Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science, by Peter Atkins
Context with Brad Harris
English - October 08, 2018 09:30 - 54 minutes - 81.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 440 ratingsHistory Education history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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If civilization collapsed, and our descendants could rediscover a single work to get humanity back on track scientifically and technologically, Peter Atkins’ Galileo’s Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science, would be a contender.
If there are miracles, Atkins would argue that they are not found in the surreal conjectures of things unexplained, but in the tangible power of our otherwise small minds to achieve cosmic insights through experiment and mathematics. Here, he distills his choices for the most profound of those insights.
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