Periodic tales
Subtitle: a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc
By: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780061824722
Subjects: Chemical elements; Discoveries in science; SCIENCE / General; Periodic law; History
Description: "In the spirit of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language"--