Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules

by Philip Ball

Book Overview

If atoms are letters, writes Philip Ball, then molecules are words. And through these words, scientists have uncovered many fascinating stories of the physical world. In Stories of the Invisible, Ball has compiled a cornucopia of tales spun by these intriguing, invisible words.
Spiced with quotations from Primo Levi, Flann O'Brien, and Thomas Pynchon, Stories of the Invisible takes us on a tour of a world few of us knew existed. The author describes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192802143
• ISBN13: 9780192802149
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.6"