num_pages: 240
description: Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms and helped to explain the dawn of life is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles The origin of atoms, and the origin of stars. Neither story could be told without the other, for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms, and the atoms the solution to the secret of the stars.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Magic Furnace
titlecomplete: The Magic Furnace
genres: Astronomy, Science, Nonfiction, Popular Science, Physics
ratings_count: 226
publisher: Random House, 1999