Elements

A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

Theodore Gray (Autor)

24 Seiten

2016 | 2017 ed.
Little, Brown & Company (Hersteller)
978-0-316-39023-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Every month in this stunning 12-month wall calendar shows a big beautiful photograph of a featured element and gives information and interesting anecdotes about the history and use of the element. Featured elements in the 2017 calendar include caesium (55), sulphur (16), iron (26), oxygen (8), scandium (21), yttrium (39), germanium (32), gold (79), technetium (43), lanthanum (57), tungsten (74), and ruthenium (44). Smaller images of compounds are featured within the monthly grid and show the element's every-day use. Monthly grids include important dates in chemical history, as well as major North American, British, Australian and New Zealand holidays. As well as the monthly phases of the moon.

Autor

Theodore Gray is the author of The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe; Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But Probably Shouldn't; Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But Still Probably Shouldn't; and Popular Science magazine's 'Gray Matter' column. With his company Touch Press, Gray is the developer of best-selling iPad and iPhone apps, including The Elements, Solar System, Disney Animated, The Orchestra, The Waste Land, and Skulls by Simon Winchester. He lives in Urbana, Illinois.Theodore Gray is the author of the bestselling book The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe and Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But Probably Shouldn't. He is the author of Popular Science magazine's monthly column, 'Gray Matter' and the proprietor of periodictable.com. He is also cofounder of Touch Press, an ebook company that is defining the future of publishing, and the cofounder of Wolfram Research, creators of the world's leading technical software system, Mathematica and Wolfram ? Alpha . He lives in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.7.2016
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 300 x 300 mm
• Gewicht: 295 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• ISBN-10: 0-316-39023-2 / 0316390232
• ISBN-13: 978-0-316-39023-1 / 9780316390231
• Zustand: Neuware