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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

Door Philip Ball

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#363975-XL5
Titel
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
Auteur
Ball, Philip
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
London : Thames & Hudson Limited
Jaar van uitgave
2021
ISBN10
0500024537
ISBN13
9780500024539
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Originel pictorial boards, decorated endpapers,numerous (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transforming substances into a rational modern science that provides us with new materials, drugs, and much else. While other books have described the properties of the chemical elements and often delved into their histories, none has done so in this highly visual manner. The closest comparison is Theodore Gray's illustrated book The Elements - but this does not take a historical approach as this does here. The pictorial material for this subject is very rich, including some gorgeous alchemical do... (Lees verder)cuments as well as portraits, colour charts, woodcuts of mining, artefacts such as John Dalton's wooden balls, advertisements (for example, for radium 'cures') and postage stamps. The book contains separate short sections for each element or groups of related elements, which are gathered into several sections to order the sequence into several chronological eras of element discovery. Included are short 'interludes' (or 'feature spreads') presenting important intellectual milestones in how we think about elements. With 192 illustrations
Pagina's
224
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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