Greenberg, Arthur.
Summary: The Art of chemistry employs 187 figures to illuminate 72 essays on the mythical origins, experiments, and adventurous explorers in the annals of chemistry. Each of the eight sections tracks chemistry's incremental progress from myth to modern science, featuring the figures and diagrams that early chemists used to explain their craft. Readers will meet the deadly basilisk and the fabulous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley-Interscience 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 540.9 GREFishman, Seth
Summary: Did you know that the earth is covered in three trillion trees? And that seven billion people weigh about the same as ten quadrillion ants? Our world is full of constantly changing numbers, from a hundred billion trillion stars in space to thirty-seven billion rabbits on Earth. Can you imagine that many of anything? The playful illustrations from New York Times'bestselling artist Isabel...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018