Philip Ball

Elegant Solutions

Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to stimulate the reader to think anew about some of the relationships and differences between science and art, and to challenge some of the common notions about particular 'famous experiments'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11532750
• Seitenzahl: 219
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780854046744
• ISBN-10: 0854046747
• Artikelnr.: 21932659

Autorenporträt

Phillip Ball is a renowned, prolific, award winning science writer. Previous publications include; Designing the Molecular World (1994), which won the Association of American Publishers' award for the best chemistry book, H2O: A Biography of Water (1999) winner of the Premio Acqua Scrittura award for best international writing on water, and Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour (2001) which won the 2003 Society for the History of Technology award for the best writing on the history of technology, and was shortlisted for a US National Book Critics Circle award in 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What is an Experiment? What is Beauty?
Section 1: Asking Questions of Nature
Chapter 1: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Chapter 2: An Element Compounded
Chapter 3: New Light
Chapter 4: The Marvellous Glass Balloon
Chapter 5: The Elements Came in One By One
Divertissement 1: Chemistry as Theatre
Section 2: Posing New Questions
Chapter 6: Molecules Take Shape
Divertissement 2: Myths and Romances
Chapter 7: Life and How to Make It
Chapter 8: Not So Noble
Section 3: The Art of Making Things
Chapter 9: Nature Rebuilt
Chapter 10: Plato's Molecules
Divertissement 3: Chemical Aesthetics