The Norton History of Chemistry
by William H. Brock
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Recounts the rise of a sophisticated science, from the alchemists' futile attempts to turn lead into gold, through the emergence of the modern study of chemistry in the work of Boyle, Lavoisier, and Dalton, to the twentieth-century breakthroughs of Linus Pauling and others.Tags
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William H. Brock is Reader in the History of Science at the University of Leicester.
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- The Chemical Tree: A History of Chemistry
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