![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art * * Daily Telegraph * * Intriguing and elegant * * Guardian * * Thoroughly researched and beautifully written * * New Scientist * * By bringing Perkin into the open and documenting his life and work, Garfield has done a service to history * * Chicago Tribune * * Simon Garfield's history of the synthetic dye industry mixes chemistry and social history into quite a colourful tale * * Observer * * A one-man Blue Peter team for intelligent adults, a great British explainer * * Observer * * Witty, erudite and entertaining * * Esquire * * Garfield has a talent for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight * * The Times * * A sort of museum between hard covers. SIMON GARFIELD is a feature writer at the Observer (London) and the author of nine works of nonfiction, including Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and The End of Innocence, which. He also highlights the problems faced by courts and law-makers in accommodating new technologies within the logic of patent law.In his elegant microhistory of the colour mauve, Simon Garfield confirms the conclusion of Brad Sherman and Lionel Bently that many aspects of modern intellectual property law can only be understood through an. ![]()
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