Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks: The Spirited History of Physical Chemistry
by Cathy Cobb
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- 157392976X
- ISBN 13
- 9781573929769
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About This Item
Prometheus Books, 2002. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in equal dust jacket. First printing with number line 5 4 3 2 1. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. 420 pages, Size: 6.3 x 1.5 x 9.3 inches. It will pleasantly surprise readers whose previous experience with chemistry has been a forced march through dreary formulas to learn that many of the makers of those formulas lived lives of wild unpredictability and fearless defiance. In recounting how chemistry emerged from the fogs of magic into the sunlight of mathematics, Cobb rescues the piquant stories that classroom lecturers generally omit. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing
Synopsis
Cathy Cobb (Aiken, SC)is the author of the highly acclaimed Creations of Fire. She has taught chemistry at Augusta State University and now teaches physics and mathematics at Aiken Preparatory School.
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- Modern First Editions Boston (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000966
- Title
- Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks: The Spirited History of Physical Chemistry
- Author
- Cathy Cobb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 157392976X
- ISBN 13
- 9781573929769
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Place of Publication
- Amherst
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- SCIENCE & MATH > CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL THEORETICAL
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