129.64
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Thames and Hudson
The Elements
A Visual History of Their Discovery
Wydawnictwo:
Thames and Hudson
Oprawa: Twarda
Opis
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 pictorial material for this subject is very rich, including some gorgeous alchemical documents 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.
Szczegóły
Tytuł
The Elements
Podtytuł
A Visual History of Their Discovery
Autor
Philip Ball
Wydawnictwo
Rok wydania
2021
Oprawa
Twarda
Ilość stron
224
Format
20.0x25.5cm
Języki
angielski
ISBN
9780500024539
Rodzaj
Książka
EAN
9780500024539
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