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From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 540.9
EAN: 9780471751540
ISBN: 0471751545
Label: Wiley-Interscience
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 664
Publication Date: January 02, 2007
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Studio: Wiley-Interscience
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"The timeline from alchemy to chemistry contains some of the most mystifying ideas and images that humans have ever devised. Arthur Greenberg shows us this wonderful world in a unique and highly readable book."
—Dr. John Emsley, author of The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison
"Art Greenberg takes us, through text and lovingly selected images, on a 'magical mystery tour' of the chemical universe. No matter what page you open, there is a chemical story worth telling."
—Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate and coauthor of Chemistry Imagined
"Chemistry has perhaps the most intricate, most fascinating, and certainly most romantic history of all the sciences. Arthur Greenberg's essays-delightful, learned, quirky, highly personal, and richly illustrated with contemporary drawings (many of great rarity and beauty)-provide a kaleidoscope of intellectual landscapes, bringing the experiments, the ideas, and the human figures of chemistry's past intensely alive."
—Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of Awakenings
From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story takes you on an illustrated tour of chemistry's fascinating history, from its early focus on the spiritual relationship between man and nature to some of today's most cutting-edge applications. Drawing from rare publications and artwork that span over five centuries, the book contains nearly 200 essays and over 350 illustrations-including 24 in full color-that tell the engaging story of the development of this fundamental science and its connection with human history.
Join Arthur Greenberg as he combines the "best of the best" from his previous works (as well as several new essays) to paint a colorful picture of chemistry's remarkable origins!
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Rating: - A Couple of Hundred Interesting Essays
The author says that in his first teaching job he was assigned to teach a course on 'Chemistry for Non-Science Majors.' This began a fascination with communications that has continued until now. In his case this has taken the form of a collection of images he has collected from ancient chemistry books and the like. These he has combined with a series of essays, he has written over the years.
In this volume there are some 350 illustrations and 200 essays talking about virtually every ... Read More
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