{"product_id":"the-elements-a-visual-history-of-their-discovery-hardcover","title":"The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide\nto how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It\nprovides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made\nof but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making\nand transforming substances into a rational modern science that provides us\nwith new materials, drugs, and much else.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhile other books have described the properties of the chemical elements and\noften delved into their histories, none has done so in this highly visual\nmanner. The closest comparison is Theodore Gray’s illustrated book \u003ci\u003eThe\nElements\u003c\/i\u003e - but this does not take a historical approach as this does\nhere. The pictorial material for this subject is very rich, including some\ngorgeous alchemical documents as well as portraits, colour charts, woodcuts of\nmining, artefacts such as John Dalton’s wooden balls, advertisements (for\nexample, for radium 'cures') and postage stamps.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book contains separate short sections for each element or groups of related\nelements, which are gathered into several sections to order the sequence into\nseveral chronological eras of element discovery. Included are short\n'interludes' (or 'feature spreads') presenting important intellectual\nmilestones in how we think about elements.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWith 192 illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Ball\u003c\/b\u003e has written more than 20 books on\nscientific topics, including \u003ci\u003eElegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful\nExperiments in Chemistry\u003c\/i\u003e (which was awarded the Dingle Prize for books\nby the British Society for the History of Science), \u003ci\u003eCritical Mass\u003c\/i\u003e (which\nwon the Aventis Science Books award in 2005), and \u003ci\u003eA Very Short\nIntroduction to The Elements\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the VSI series from Oxford University\nPress. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePhilip is a presenter of the science history series \u003ci\u003eScience\nStories\u003c\/i\u003e on BBC Radio 4. He holds a BA in Chemistry from the University\nof Oxford and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol, and is a Fellow\nof the Royal Society of Chemistry and a board member of its magazine \u003ci\u003eChemistry\nWorld\u003c\/i\u003e, in which he writes a regular column.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"66 BOOKS LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44980273250511,"sku":"9780500024539","price":35.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_dbd75f9a-f1cc-4187-b134-2bd93e53e25d.jpg?v=1776156343","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/the-elements-a-visual-history-of-their-discovery-hardcover","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}