Umfang:
224 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
26 cm
ISBN:
9780226775951
,
022677595X
Inhalt:
Inhalt: Introduction -- The periodic table -- The classical elements -- The antique metals -- Alchemical elements -- Interlude: What exactly is an element? -- The new metals -- Chemistry golden age -- Interlude: John Dalton's atoms -- Electrical discoveries -- Interlude: the periodic table -- The radiant age -- The nuclear age
Inhalt:
"The Elements is a stunning visual history of how the chemical elements were discovered. By piecing together the Periodic Table, science writer Philip Ball explores not only how we came to understand what everything is made of but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. He groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering three millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves deliberately from classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By featuring some elements that aren't true elements but were thought to be, such as phlogiston and caloric, Elements makes bold choices in order to tell the full history of this important science. To order the book's sequence into eras of element discovery, separate short sections for each element or groups of related elements are gathered into larger parts. Short interludes (or feature spreads) are interspersed that convey important intellectual milestones in how we think about the elements"--
Inhalt:
This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transforming substances into a rational modern science that provides us with new materials, drugs, and much else. While other books have described the properties of the chemical elements and often delved into their histories, none has done so in this highly visual manner. The closest comparison is Theodore Gray's illustrated book The Elements - but this does not take a historical approach as this does here
Anmerkung:
Literaturangaben in Endnoten (Seite 218-219)
,
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 220
,
Mit Register
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226776002
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Chemie/Pharmazie
Schlagwort(e):
Chemisches Element
;
Entdeckung
;
Geschichte
;
Periodensystem
;
Geschichte
Mehr zum Autor:
Ball, Philip 1962-
Bookmarklink
