Periodic Tales / Aldersey-Williams, Hugh

Unlocking their astonishing secrets and colorful pasts, Periodic Tales is a passionate journey through mines and artists? studios, to factories and cathedrals, into the woods and to the sea to discover the true stories of these fascinating but mysterious building blocks of the universe.

Examines the periodic table and the chemical elements it encompasses through history, literature, science, and art from antiquity to the early twenty-first century and discusses true stories and facts about the building blocks of the universe.