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The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms

The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms

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The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms

by Chown, Marcus

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0224042068
ISBN 13
9780224042062
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London, UK: Jonathan Cape, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. 232pp. In black cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine. Black endpaper. 8vo. A hint of shadowing on boards and endpapers, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original, illustrated dust jacket, very lightly bumped along upper edge. Everything is made of atoms: this is Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms and helped to explain the dawn of life on earth.

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Marcus Chown is a journalist at the New Scientist. He is the author of The Afterglow of Creation , shortlisted for the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, and is the winner of the 1994 Science Writers Award.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
Author
Chown, Marcus
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0224042068
ISBN 13
9780224042062
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Place of Publication
London, UK
Date Published
1999
Pages
240
Size
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords
Science, Atoms, Life on Earth
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0 kg

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