Periodic Tales
Autor Hugh Aldersey-Williamsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2012
'Science writing at its best. If only chemistry had been like this at school' Matt Ridley
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Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning.
Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll discover what connects the bones in your body with the Whitehouse in Washington, the glow of a streetlamp with the salt on your dinner table.
Unlocking their astonishing secrets and colourful pasts, Periodic Tales is a voyage of wonder and discovery, showing that their stories are inextricable from the stories of our own lives.
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'A love letter to the chemical elements. Aldersey-Williams is full of good stories and he knows how to tell them well' Sunday Telegraph
'The history, science, art, literature and everyday applications of all the elements from aluminium to zinc' The Times
'Great fun to read and an endless fund of unlikely and improbable anecdotes' Financial Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141041452
ISBN-10: 0141041455
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 60 b/w integrated
Dimensiuni: 128 x 199 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141041455
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 60 b/w integrated
Dimensiuni: 128 x 199 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Hugh Aldersey-Williams studied natural sciences at Cambridge. He is the author of several books exploring science, design and architecture - including Periodic Tales, Anatomies and The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century - and has curated exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Wellcome Collection. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and son.
Recenzii
Science writing at its best ... fascinating and beautiful ... if only chemistry had been like this at school ... to meander through the periodic table with him ... is like going round a zoo with Gerald Durrell ... a rich compilation of delicious tales, but it offers greater rewards, too
Immensely engaging and continually makes one sit up in surprise
Splendid ... enjoyable and polished
Full of good stories and he knows how to tell them well ... an agreeable jumble of anecdote, reflection and information
Great fun to read and an endless fund of unlikely and improbable anecdotes ... sharp and often witty
A joyous romp through the chemical elements
Not only a cultural history of the elements, it is also a lament to the loss of science as a hobby
A flashily brainy book, crammed with literary references and held together by a personal quest to collect as many elements as possible
'Elements are fun' is the essential premise of Hugh Aldersey-Williams's new book and by heck he's right ... Aldersey-Williams mourns the fact chemistry isn't really sexy any more; Periodic Tales is a step towards it getting its mojo back
Imaginative and fun ... almost every page yields a nugget
Immensely engaging and continually makes one sit up in surprise
Splendid ... enjoyable and polished
Full of good stories and he knows how to tell them well ... an agreeable jumble of anecdote, reflection and information
Great fun to read and an endless fund of unlikely and improbable anecdotes ... sharp and often witty
A joyous romp through the chemical elements
Not only a cultural history of the elements, it is also a lament to the loss of science as a hobby
A flashily brainy book, crammed with literary references and held together by a personal quest to collect as many elements as possible
'Elements are fun' is the essential premise of Hugh Aldersey-Williams's new book and by heck he's right ... Aldersey-Williams mourns the fact chemistry isn't really sexy any more; Periodic Tales is a step towards it getting its mojo back
Imaginative and fun ... almost every page yields a nugget
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like, how they exist in nature, how they got their names, or of what use they are to us. Unlocking their astonishing secrets and colorful pasts, Periodic Tales is a passionate journey through mines and artists’ studios, to factories and cathedrals, into the woods and to the sea to discover the true stories of these fascinating but mysterious building blocks of the universe.