The elements : a visual history of their discovery / Philip Ball.
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TextPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, c2021Description: 224 pages : illustration (colored with pictures) ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500024539 [hardbound]Subject(s): Chemical elements | Chemical elements History | Chemical elements History Pictorial works | Éléments chimiques Histoire | Éléments chimiques Histoire Ouvrages illustrés | History | Pictorial worksDDC classification: Summary: "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." --Provided by the publisher
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"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." --Provided by the publisher
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