A brilliant concept — a book about the elements of the periodic table, covering their physical and chemical properties, the history of their discovery and their use, the roles they've played in literature and culture, etc. The execution is not quite so brilliant, but workmanlike and competent. T...
An interesting book, probably better read a chapter or two at a time as opposed to my usual all-at-once technique. Reading it in one stretch, the stories get rather repetitive and the writing style tiring. For about the first two-thirds of the book it held my interest. It is almost completely ane...
Very interesting trip through the elements, when and who discovered them, and their uses, some of which I would have never guessed at. The Swedish discovered a number of the elements all from one mine but very few of them took credit for their discoveries. Their names aren't even mentioned in Swe...
Buckland was a noted geologist, and the first professor in the subject at the University of Oxford. His masterpiece was Vindiciae Geologiae, a work which set out a new theory for the subject in which fossils predated Noah’s flood, but the Bible nonetheless remained literally true – a cunning piec...