THE ELEMENTS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE PERIODIC TABLE

Book ID/图书代码： 14630012B57653

English Summary/英文概要： In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the world with the Periodic Table. It contained 63 elements, many more than the four earth, water, fire, and air established in the ancient world, but less than half the total in our modern table. Mendeleev believed there were many elements still to come. He was right. 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. The story includes Democritus of ancient Greece who said that the four elements of nature earth, water, fire, and air must be made of atoms, otherwise our world is just an illusion, and the French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier, who was the first to show that water is not an element at all. With over three hundred illustrations, it opens a window into the very stuff of nature stars, rocks, life, and more and shows us the way to make even smarter technologies. From the ancient Greek philosopher who noticed the unusual force exerted by amber, to the alchemist who boiled urine until it glowed in the dark, to the British inventor who described the powerful effect of electricity on a dead body to Mary Shelley (before she wrote Frankenstein) to the theologian who observed mice becoming unconscious when dangled over brewing beer, the discovery of the elements is a story with many chapters, each adding to our understanding of these basic substances that make up the world around us. The thoughts and deeds of great thinkers always make great stories and here are a hundred of the most significant. Each story relates a confounding puzzle that became a discovery and changed the way we see the world. We call these Ponderables. What will great thinkers ponder next? How will new contributions add to our understanding of the universe? Take a glimpse at the Imponderables, the mysteries still to be solved, for an insight into future great discoveries. 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. On the reverse side is a 12-page Chart of Elements in Atomic Order providing scientific data for all 118 elements, as well as their primary source and use.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1869年俄國化學家德米特裡•門捷列夫向世界展示了他的化學元素週期表。這張週期表包含了63個化學元素，超越了人類在遠古時期已知的土、水、火、和空氣的四個元素，但這一發現還未及我們現代化學元素表中的一半。門捷列夫相信還有很多元素尚未被發現。他是正確的。在這本基本的化學元素週期表指南書籍中，我們探索歷史上最為古老但卻極具深度的科學方法，揭示了宇宙的構造模塊。正如第一次城市的形成過程，由以下這些哲學家、煉金術士、實業家、和偉大科學家們所奉獻出的這部，彙集了他們智慧力量所創建出，這部沉澱的知識寶典。故事中包括了古希臘哲學家德謨克利特所述的原子的構造必須是土、水、火，和空氣，否則我們的世界將只是一場環境，和法國貴族安托萬•拉瓦錫，第一個表明水並不是所有物質中的唯一元素。隨附超過三百頁的插圖，為讀者開啟了自然世界中恒星、岩石、生命和許多其他自然界物質的知識之窗，並向我們展示了更為簡潔的科技方法。從古希臘哲學家注意到琥珀的異常能量，到煉金術士在煮煮尿液時，無意間在黑暗中發光，到瑪麗•雪萊在(撰寫《科學怪人- 弗蘭肯斯坦》)之前，英國發明家描述了電流在屍體身上所發生的強烈效果，直至神學家發現當啤酒在釀造過程中懸蕩時，老鼠將變得失去意識，元素的發現是許多故事章節中的一部分，每個故事都添加了便於我們對周圍世界基本物質組成的理解部分。(Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Tom Jackson has been a writer and editor for 20 years. He has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. Tom gets to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, his specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating these kinds of facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities.

Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.

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