Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to ZincHarper Collins, 29/03/2011 - 453 páginas 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. |
Índice
| 13 | |
Going Platinum | 29 |
Noble Metals Ignobly Announced | 37 |
The Ochreous Stain | 43 |
The Element Traders | 55 |
Among the Carbonari | 61 |
Plutonium Charades | 70 |
Mendeleevs Suitcases | 81 |
Dull Leads Grey Truth | 212 |
The Worldwide Web | 236 |
Banalization | 253 |
The Guild of Aerospace Welders | 276 |
Lonelychrome America | 297 |
Inheritance Powder | 314 |
The Crimson Light of Neon | 331 |
EARTH | 349 |
The Liquid Mirror | 90 |
fire | 103 |
Pee is for Phosphorus | 112 |
As under a green sea Humanitarian nonsense | 147 |
Our Lady of Radium | 160 |
13 | 162 |
Cocktails at the Pale Horse | 186 |
CRAFT | 199 |
Europium Union | 359 |
Gadolin and Samarsky Everymen of the Elements | 373 |
Epilogue | 391 |
29 | 399 |
References and Select Bibliography | 405 |
43 | 419 |
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