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. The
closest comparison is Theodore Gray's illustrated book The Elements
- but this does not take a historical approach as this does here.
The pictorial material for this subject is very rich, including
some gorgeous alchemical documents as well as portraits, colour
charts, woodcuts of mining, artefacts such as John Dalton's wooden
balls, advertisements (for example, for radium 'cures') and postage
stamps. The book contains separate short sections for each element
or groups of related elements, which are gathered into several
sections to order the sequence into several chronological eras of
element discovery. Included are short 'interludes' (or 'feature
spreads') presenting important intellectual milestones in how we
think about elements. With 192 illustrations
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