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EVERY book that makes the achievements of science and its problems known to a wider circle of the public is to be welcomed. Mr. Coles gives a judicious blend of the past, the present and the future—wisely in our opinion, for he who would understand the future must venerate the past. The story of the dawn of chemistry, of the age of alchemy, is far more interesting than that of the lives of the contemporary kings and queens and their favourites, if only we could persuade the public to read the former instead of the latter. Even the daily Press now takes notice of atoms, molecules and electrons: with the transmutation of the elements a fact, the wheel of progress has taken a full turn.
The Book of Chemical Discovery.
By Leonard A. Coles. Pp. 288 + 31 plates. (London, Bombay and Sydney: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 7s. 6d. net.
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A., E. The Book of Chemical Discovery. Nature 133, 48 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133048a0
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