The Elements: A Very Short Introduction

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2004-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0192840991
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This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author takes the reader on an engaging and entertaining tour: from the Greek philosophers who propounded a system with four elements - earth, air, fire, and water - to the modern-day scientists who are able to create their own.


The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 193

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction

Authors: Philip Ball
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the subst
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
Language: en
Pages: 290

Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf

Authors: Peter Wothers
Categories: Chemical elements
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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How did the elements get their names? The origins of californium may be obvious, but what about oxygen? Investigating their origins takes Peter Wothers deep int
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Language: en
Pages: 293

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

Authors: Raj Patel
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-22 - Publisher: Verso Books

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Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap,
Euclid's Elements
Language: en
Pages: 544

Euclid's Elements

Authors: Euclid
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

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"The book includes introductions, terminology and biographical notes, bibliography, and an index and glossary" --from book jacket.
The Periodic Table
Language: en
Pages: 279

The Periodic Table

Authors: Primo Levi
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10-01 - Publisher: Everyman's Library

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The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan