The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
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.
