Periodic Tales

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"--

subjects: Chemical elements,  Discoveries in science,  SCIENCE / General,  Periodic law,  History,  Periodic table of the elements,  SCIENCE,  General,  Tables,  Periodiska systemet,  Historia,  Grundämnen,  Vetenskapshistoria,  Popular works,  Populärvetenskap