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. |
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Going Platinum | |
The Ochreous Stain | |
The Element Traders | |
Plutonium Charades | |
Mendeleevs Suitcases | |
Fire | |
The Worldwide | |
Banalization | |
Turnd to barnacles | |
The Guild of Aerospace Welders | |
Beauty | |
Abbé Sugers Sheet Sapphire | |
Rainbows in the Blood | |
The Crimson Light of Neon | |
As under a green sea | |
Slow Fire | |
Our Lady of Radium | |
Nightglow of Dystopia | |
Cocktails at the Pale Horse | |
Craft | |
Dull Leads Grey Truth | |
Our Perfect Reflection | |
Jezebels Eyes | |
Europium Union | |
Gadolin and Samarsky Everymen of the Elements | |
Epilogue | |
References and Select Bibliography | |
Searchable Terms | |
Acknowledgements | |
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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc Hugh Aldersey-Williams Pré-visualização limitada - 2011 |
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements Hugh Aldersey-Williams Pré-visualização indisponível - 2011 |
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