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jonas_gehrlein's review
1.0
Maybe this book deserves two or more stars but there are some parts that are really dislike. Particularly that the author damns people for past chemists having different beliefs than the current consensus and if someone believes in alchemy or non- atomist chemistry they are credulous. In the start of the book the author says that he does not want to go into detail with experiments and theory as other people has described the scientific parts betten than he can do. This he does keeps for most of the book but when it comes to the modern physics he decides to devote a chapter to in a lot of detail to describe it in a high level of detail which it perhaps deserves
panxa's review
4.0
This was a great survey of the shift from alchemy to chemistry, and includes some particle physics at the end. There is an appendix of the periodical table with brief descriptions of each element, who discovered it, and when. Morris also includes an annotated bibliography with suggestions for further reading geared towards a casual science reader rather than a scientist.
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