Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research and recent work with subatomic particles. The Chicago Daily Tribune declared, . "The saga is exciting and Mr. Jaffe has told it with distinction." 20 illustrations.
Alchemy by E. J. Holmyard Classic study by noted authority covers 2,000 years of alchemical history: religious, mystical overtones; apparatus; signs, symbols, and secret terms; advent of scientific method, much more. Illustrated.
Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905 by Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, William B. Jensen This is the first English-language collection of Mendeleev's most important writings on the subject, consisting of 13 essays and offering a history of the law's development by its own founder.
