Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc Walter Isaacson Gideon Cross

Gideon Cross

a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicenter of the Rotunda

engagement with history

I will speak to you if you will listen

subversive

Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc Walter Isaacson Gideon CrossIn the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award winning science writer Hugh Andersey Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elementsand the amazing, little known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide ranging book of innovations and innovators, of superstition and science and the myriad ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language. It will