1: Aristotle's Quartet: The elements in antiquity
2: Revolution: How oxygen changed the world
3: Gold: The most desirable element
4: The Eightfold Path: Organizing the elements
5: The Atom Factories: Making new elements
6: The Chemical Brothers: Why isotopes are useful
7: For All Practical Purposes: Technologies of the elements
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Futher reading
Philip Ball is a science writer and a consultant editor for Nature,
where he was formerly an editor for physical science for over 10
years. He writes about all areas of science for the international
press, and has broadcast on TV and radio. His previous books
include Designing the Molecular World, The Self-Made Tapestry, H20:
A Biography of Water, and Stories of the Invisible: A guided tour
of molecules. He holds a degree in
chemistry from Oxford University and a doctorate in physics from
Bristol University. He lives in London, where his Homunculus
Theatre Company occasionally performs on a shoestring budget.
`Ball is one of the most prolific and imaginative of contemporary
science writers. He has plenty of attitude, boasts a fine knowledge
of visual art and a literary sensibility, and his science is
encyclopaedic.
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Chemistry in Britain
`A delight of a book.... Elegantly written...it's far-reaching,
entertaining and salted with anecdote.... It could become a
classic. Hold on to your first edition'
Roy Herbert, New Scientist
`engaging tour of the chemical elements'
Sunday Telegraph
`Philip Ball's book is an excellent introduction. I would have
loved the book as an enthusiastic sixteen year-old and I would
recommend it as a Christmas present to anyone at that age, and to
journalists who may occasionally wish to appear smarter than they
actually are.'
Simon Robinson, Chemistry and Industry
`a series of invigorating dips
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Guardian
`Ball's choices are sound, his style is attractive
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Evening Standard
`Ball brings the periodic table to life
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Maia Weinstock, Discover
`A beautifully written and elegantly illustrated synthesis of
chemistry and culture. Popularization of science at its very
best.'
Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge
`The book contains some delightful anecdotes
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David Johnson, Times Higher Educational Supplement
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