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Favole Periodiche: La Vita Avventurosa Degli Elementi Chimici (2011)

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8817048585 (ISBN13: 9788817048583)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Rizzoli

review 1: I wanted to really like this book because my husband bought it for me when he was away on business- I can picture him staring at the book shelves, reading each description, trying to find a book that I would like... and from the description, I should have liked this book. I found it really interesting, but written in an extremely dull and hard-to-follow sort of way.The author was British, which is fine, but he assumed I had a working knowledge of famous British chemists and, for example, referred regularly to what Davy had done or said previously. It took me several times of looking back to see if he had mentioned someone named Davy in the previous few pages (he had not) before I googled him. (Humphry Davy, Cornish chemist born 1778, discovered iodine and chlorine.) Th... moree writing was hard to follow and the author waxed too romantic at times (for my taste). For example, he was enraptured by the fact that some of the security features on the 5 Euro note are made from europium, and talked about it for like 5 pages.I found the section where he tries to isolate phosphorous from his own urine hilarious, but other than that, it was really dry and choppy.
review 2: Este libro en castellano se titula "La tabla periódica. La curiosa historia de los elementos".No se trata tanto de una historia exhaustiva y rigurosa del descubrimiento de todos los elementos, como podría ser "La cuchara menguante" de Sam Kean, sino más bien el mismo tema desde un punto de vista mas apasionado y subjetivo, centrándose en temas que al autor llaman la atención.Algunas cosas las he encontrado muy diverntidas e interesantes; tras quizás no tanto, pero es de agradecer el entusiasmo que pone el autor en sus aventuras para intentar incluso reproducir los experimentos para ver cómo se descubrió algún que otro elemento o su escapada a las minas de Ytterbi, de donde surgieron montones de elenentos de las tierras raras.Muy entretenido, a la vez que largo. less

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