Author: MARTIN, CHARLES-NOEL Title: The Thirteen Steps to the Atom - a Photographic Exploration
Description: London, George G. Harrap. 1959, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on -blue boards which have some light marks and a little wear to spine head and tail and to corner tips. Internally there is age toning to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. 256 pages. 118 photographs and some line drawings. The collection of photographs covers a scale ranging from the centimetre to the ten-millionth of a centimetre. The whole of creation lies within these dizzy depths of minuteness. Here we find the living cells that make up plants and animals; gaze at the pure, fascinating shapes of crystals. Then we pass into the irgin forest opened up by the electron microscope and discover viruses, micro-crystals and at last molecules. A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.
Keywords: Molecules, Atoms, Viruses, Elementary Particles
Price: GBP 10.00 = appr. US$ 14.28 Seller: Goldring Books
- Book number: 011029
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