Opis: The Elements - Philip Ball

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: The Elements - Philip Ball

Tytuł: The Elements
Podtytuł: A Visual History of Their Discovery
Autor: Philip Ball
Wydawnictwo: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 9780500024539
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2021
Ilość stron: 224
Format: 20.0x25.5cm
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.985 kg

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