Napoleon's Buttons
Subtitle: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
Published: May 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781585423316
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Popular science; Quantum & theoretical chemistry; Philosophy & Social Aspects; General; Science; History: World; Europe; Popular works; Chemistry - General; History; Science / History; Chemistry
First sentence: CHRISTOS E. ESPICIARIAS!-for Christ and spices-was the jubilant cry from Vasco da Gama's sailors as, in May 1498, they approached India and the goal of gaining untold wealth from spices that for centuries had been the monopoly of the merchants of Venice.