ISBN10: 0006861733, ISBN13: 9780006861737, [publisher: Fontana Press Harpercollins] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]

Paperback. Acceptable. ISBN 0006861733 9780006861737 [GB]

ISBN10: 0006861733, ISBN13: 9780006861737, [publisher: Fontana Press Harpercollins] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]

ISBN10: 0006861733, ISBN13: 9780006861737, [publisher: Fontana Press] Softcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780006861737
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]

Fontana Press - harpercollins harper collins, London, Date: 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. blue & black titles spine; illustrated by section of b/w. photo's., diagrams & formulae; cover shows 'The Alchemist' by Johannes Stradanus; "beginning with the first tentative chemical explorations where primitive technology and . techniques were deployed, Dr Brock proceeds via the alchemists' futile, but frequently profitable, efforts to turn lead into gold to recount. the emergence of the modern discipline of chemistry as fashioned by Boyle, Lavoisier and Dalton, He provides a particularly generous critical account of chemical developments during the last 150 years, emphasizing the roles-of purity, analysis and synthesis, the exploration of reaction mechanisms, and the industrialization of chemical change, while also weighing up just how chemistry has been taught and disseminated. While brilliantly successful in explaining and exploiting chemical change, modern chemistry - in academy and factory alike - with its recondite language and symbolism and its associations with pollution and danger, prompts more fear than excitement in the uninitiated bystander. This book seeks to enlighten that bystander: to assess links between theory and practice, to reveal recurrent cycles and themes, and to encourage a heightened awareness of the human dimensions of the chemical sciences which might in turn promote a. better public understanding of ...

UK: Fontana Press, Date: 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Introduction by Roy Porter, Fontana History of Science editor. Mostly clean colour pictorial paperback. Black / coloured titles and on spine. Very light edge wear and creasing. Clean lightly tanned cut edges, endpapers and text block. Text clear. Fine b/w plates, diagrams and frontispiece. Binding solid. 1992. Fontana Press ISBN 0006861733 9780006861737 [GB]

ISBN10: 0006861733, ISBN13: 9780006861737, [publisher: Fontana Press Harpercollins] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]