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  • Fifth Business

    A Life of the Chemist and Educationist Henry Edward Armstrong

    de William H. Brock ...
    A biography of Henry Edward Armstrong, an underappreciated maverick in the history of chemistry.Fifth Business is a biography of the English chemist, educator, and scientific critic Henry Edward Armstrong. Today, Armstrong, who was a central figure in the development of the science of chemistry between 1885 and 1914, is more remembered for his campaigns to improve the teaching of chemistry, and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Case of the Poisonous Socks

    Tales from Chemistry

    de William H Brock ...
    In 1868, The Times reported that poisons contained in dyes were affecting the public's health. A doctor informed a London magistrate that brilliantly coloured socks had caused severe "constitutional and local complaint" to several of his patients. In one case, a patient's foot had become so swollen that his boots had to be cut off. Respected chemist, William Crookes, offered to identify the poison ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The History of Chemistry

    A Very Short Introduction

    de William H. Brock ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that underpins both the physical and biological sciences, as well as technology. In this Very Short Introduction, William H Brock traces the unique appeal of this fundamental science throughout history. Covering alchemy, early-modern chemistry, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The History of Chemistry

    A Very Short Introduction

    de William H. Brock ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that underpins both the physical and biological sciences, as well as technology. In this Very Short Introduction, William H Brock traces the unique appeal of this fundamental science throughout history. Covering alchemy, early-modern chemistry, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science

    de William H. Brock ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    William Crookes' long life was one of unbroken scientific and business activity, culminating in his appointment as President of the Royal Society in 1913. Throughout his career he was an important science journalist, the discoverer of thallium, the inventor of the radiometer, investigator of cathode rays and the vacuum, a spectroscopist of significance in rare earth chemistry, and a spokesman for ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Philosophical Breakfast Club

    Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World

    de Laura J. Snyder ...
    “[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—NewsweekThe* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Man Who Changed Everything

    The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

    de Basil Mahon ...
    "Mahon has written a first-rate book on Maxwell's science and legacy."—New ScientistThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the ... Leer más

    $10.00 USD

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  • Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

    de Tom Shachtman ...
    "A lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life." —Alan LightmanCombining science, history, and adventure, Tom Shachtman "holds the reader's attention with the skill of a novelist" as he chronicles the story of humans' four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets of cold ( Scientific American)."A disarming portrait of an exquisite, ferocious, world-ending extreme," Absolute Zero and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Strangest Man

    The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

    de Graham Farmelo ...
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe definitive biography of Paul Dirac, the brilliant—and enigmatic—physicist whose foundational work in quantum mechanics revolutionized modern science.“This biography is a gift.… A thought-provoking meditation on human achievement, limitations, and the relations between the two.” —New York Times Book Review**Paul Dirac was among the great scientific ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Fontana History of Chemistry

    de William Brock ...
    The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws on both the author’s own original research and that of other scholars, is an unrivalled work of synthesis.Beginning with the first tentative chemical explorations, Dr Brock proceeds via the alchemists’ futile, but frequently profitable, efforts to turn lead into gold to recount the emergence of the modern discipline of chemistry as fashioned by Boyle, ... Leer más

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  • Michael Faraday

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Frank A.J.L James ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the 'father' of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives. This Very Short Introduction dispels the myth that Faraday was an experimental genius ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Half Lives

    The Unlikely History of Radium

    de Lucy Jane Santos ...
    The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life.Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal.Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item – a ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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