What do You think about The Elements A Visual Exploration Of Every Known Atom In The Universe 1000 Piece Puzzle (2011)?
If you need one book about the periodic table of the elements, let it be this one! First of all, this large book just looks beautiful, with full size macroscopic pictures of artefacts containing the different elements. Secondly, the text is very informative, a rare thing for books that have so many illustrations like this one. Thirdly, Gray writes about his subject with a love that you would normally only expect from an ornitologist describing his favourite species of birds. And finally, Gray has a great sense of dry humour that makes this science book a hugely entertaining read.Apart from the high readablility, 'The Elements' is well planned and reserves a space on every page where the key facts about an atom are put in nice graphics: atom number, electron filling order, crystal structure, atomic weight and density, location in the periodic table and the temperature at which the element becomes solid, liquid or gas. This way you can compare different elements by simply fanning through the pages.This is a book that everybody with even a slight interest in science should own.
—abcdefr90
If you need one book about the periodic table of the elements, let it be this one! First of all, this large book just looks beautiful, with full size macroscopic pictures of artefacts containing the different elements. Secondly, the text is very informative, a rare thing for books that have so many illustrations like this one. Thirdly, Gray writes about his subject with a love that you would normally only expect from an ornitologist describing his favourite species of birds. And finally, Gray has a great sense of dry humour that makes this science book a hugely entertaining read.Apart from the high readablility, 'The Elements' is well planned and reserves a space on every page where the key facts about an atom are put in nice graphics: atom number, electron filling order, crystal structure, atomic weight and density, location in the periodic table and the temperature at which the element becomes solid, liquid or gas. This way you can compare different elements by simply fanning through the pages.This is a book that everybody with even a slight interest in science should own.
—mitchell
looked good when I skimmed it but I was too lazy to bother reading properly
—123
