In this essential guide to the Periodic Table, we track the history of the powerful yet elegant tool that lays bare the building blocks of the Universe. The journey begins just as the first cities are forming, and follows the contributions made by philosophers, alchemists, industrialists, and great scientists as they gather force to create this masterpiece of accumulated knowledge. Includes a removable fold-out concertina neatly housed in the back of the book. This fold-out provides a 12-page Timeline History of the Periodic Table that embeds the story of chemistry in historical context and shows Who Did What When at a glance.

The Elements: An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table (Ponderables)

Worth Press Ltd Tom Jackson

Worth Press Ltd.

Here is the essential guide to mathematics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that explores the work of history's greatest mathematicians. From the teasing genius of Pierre de Fermat, who said he knew the answers but rarely gave them up, to the fractal pattern discovered by Waclaw Sierpinski now used to plan the route a mailman takes, here are 100 landmark moments in this intensely rigorous discipline, seen through the eyes of the people who lived them. Includes a removable fold-out concertina neatly housed in the back of the book. This fold-out provides a 12-page Timeline History of Mathematics that embeds the story in historical context and shows Who Did What When at a glance.

Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers (Ponderables)

The Universe: An Illustrated History of Astronomy (Ponderables)

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The Elements: An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table (Ponderables)

Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers (Ponderables)

The Universe: An Illustrated History of Astronomy (Ponderables)