The elements : a visual history of their discovery
Ball, Philip, 1962-2021
Book
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.
Main title:
The elements : a visual history of their discovery / Philip Ball.
Author:
Ball, Philip, 1962-, author
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021.©2021
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780500024539 (hardback)
Dewey class:
546.09
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
414235