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Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like,[...]

The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fact of our lives. It is the inspiration for art, the subject of science, and the source of some of the greatest stories ever told. In Anatomies, acclaimed author of Periodic Tales Hugh Aldersey-Williams[...]

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Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of Sunday Times bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body. "Magnificent, inspired. He writes like a latter-day Montaigne. Stimulating scientific hypotheses, bold philo[...]

Det periodiska systemet är som bekant en tabell över alla kända grundämnen. Det utvecklades under slutet av 1800-talet efter de olika grundämnenas kemiska och fysiska egenskaper. Ända sedan dess har det periodiska systemet varit en naturvetenskapens ikonbild.

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