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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

Current price: $38.00
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

Barnes and Noble

The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

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is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Ball explores not only how we have come to understand what everything is made of, but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. Ball groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering seven millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves from prehistory and classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By also featuring some elements that aren’t true elements but were long thought to be—from the foundational and heavenly aetherof the ancient Greeks to more recent false elements like phlogiston and caloric— boldly tells the full history of the central science of chemistry.

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