Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677600X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Ball explores not only how we have come to understand what everything is made of, but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. Ball groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering seven millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves from prehistory and classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By also featuring some elements that aren’t true elements but were long thought to be—from the foundational prote hyle and heavenly aetherof the ancient Greeks to more recent false elements like phlogiston and caloric—The Elements boldly tells the full history of the central science of chemistry.
The Elements
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677600X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Ball explores not only how we have come to understand what everything is made of, but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. Ball groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering seven millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves from prehistory and classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By also featuring some elements that aren’t true elements but were long thought to be—from the foundational prote hyle and heavenly aetherof the ancient Greeks to more recent false elements like phlogiston and caloric—The Elements boldly tells the full history of the central science of chemistry.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677600X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Ball explores not only how we have come to understand what everything is made of, but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. Ball groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering seven millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves from prehistory and classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By also featuring some elements that aren’t true elements but were long thought to be—from the foundational prote hyle and heavenly aetherof the ancient Greeks to more recent false elements like phlogiston and caloric—The Elements boldly tells the full history of the central science of chemistry.
Periodic Tales
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006207881X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements—and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of innovations and innovators, of superstition and science and the myriad ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language. It will delight readers of Genome, Einstein’s Dreams, Longitude, and The Age of Wonder.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006207881X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements—and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of innovations and innovators, of superstition and science and the myriad ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language. It will delight readers of Genome, Einstein’s Dreams, Longitude, and The Age of Wonder.
Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History
Author: comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy
Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Elements of Natural History, and of Chemistry. ...
Author: comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Elements of Natural History and Chemistry
Author: comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy
Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Elements of Chemistry and Natural History
Author: comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy
Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Elements of Natural History, and of Chemistry
Author: comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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A Tale of Seven Elements
Author: Eric Scerri
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195391314
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the fascinating history of those seven elements discovered to be mysteriously "missing" from the periodic table in 1913.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195391314
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the fascinating history of those seven elements discovered to be mysteriously "missing" from the periodic table in 1913.
Elements of Chemistry and Natural History!
Author: comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy
Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages :
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Elements of natural history, and of chemistry: being the second edition of the elementary lectures on those sciences ... enlarged and improved by the author ... Translated into English, with ... notes; and an historical preface by the translator [W. Nicholson].
Author: Antoine François de FOURCROY (Count.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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