119 ‘Then evaporate all’: Quoted in Derham, 187.
124 ‘curious failure’: Vertesi, Janet, ‘Light and Enlightenment in Joseph Wright of Derby’s “The Alchymist”’, Romanticism and the Midlands Enlightenment Conference, Birmingham, UK, 3 July 2004.
125 ‘a very noble’: quoted in William Bray, 244.
127 ‘The combination’: Friedrich, 96.
128 ‘Dropping phosphorus’: Emsley (2000), 158.
131 ‘the embodiment of the romantic’: Haber, 2.
138 ‘in science, medicine’: Chang and Jackson.
144 ‘through the instrumentality’: Quoted in Knight, 97.
155 ‘ideal of balance’: Bensaude-Vincent, 227.
155 ‘the excessive domination’: Bensaude-Vincent, 385.
159 ‘that insinuating vamp’: Harn, 18.
160 ‘the single most’: Lane, 342.
163 ‘our new metals’: Quoted in Quinn, 157.
163 ‘new emotion’: Quinn, 157.
166 ‘heats the soil’: Harvie, 13.
169 ‘living with a sole’: Quoted in Quinn, 156.
176 ‘the true elements’: Hartley, 54.
177 ‘danced about the room’: Quoted in Knight, 65.
177 ‘a most intense light’: Quoted in Knight, 66.
177 ‘the globules often’: Quoted in Knight, 66.
178 ‘the young chemist’: Quoted in Hartley, 22.
179 ‘Do you know where’: Quoted in Nechaev, 79.
182 ‘pitiful and ill conducted’: Quoted in Alan Brock, 51.
187 ‘Have you ever noticed’: Quoted in James.
189 ‘the symptoms of thallium’: Sanders and Lovallo, 312–13.
191 ‘the day of the eclipse’: Janssen.
192 ‘the glorious yellow’: Quoted in Weeks and Leicester, 760.
194 ‘a molecule of gold’: Besant and Leadbeater, 1.
194 ‘arranged on a definite’: Besant and Leadbeater, 3.
194 ‘was seen to consist’: Besant and Leadbeater, 9.
195 ‘so light, and so simple’: Besant and Leadbeater, 41.
196 ‘observed’: http://www.chem.yale.edu/~chem125/125/history99/8Occult/OccultAtoms.html, accessed August 2010.
197 ‘Manganese offers us’: Besant and Leadbeater, 100.
197 ‘their work would be’: Quoted in Nethercot, 52.
Part Three: Craft
200 ‘Of the extreme tracts’: Herodotus, Histories, III.115.
200 ‘Lusitania’: Pliny, Natural History, XXXIV; ‘brought from the islands’: Pliny, Natural History, IV; ‘to the north’: Strabo, Geographica, III.5.11.
200 ‘how many historians’: Rickard, 339–40.
204 ‘the respectable material’: Levi, 185.
209 ‘never seen or heard’: Levi, 185.
216 ‘In this way’: Freud, 119.
219 ‘a material for ideas’: Quoted in Arasse, 239.
221 ‘potential to achieve’: Auping, 37.
222 ‘It is, of course’: Auping, 39.
228 ‘for items of luxury’: Blair, 213.
237 ‘the copper covering’: Quoted in Jardine, 411.
237 ‘unashamedly continental’: Jardine, 411.
237 ‘A Ball of Copper’: Quoted in Jardine, 317.
238 ‘large Ball of metall gilt’: Quoted in Jardine, 316.
243 ‘It is the most’: Quoted in Thompson, 336.
257 ‘depends closely’: Veblen, 126.
258 ‘nearly put a shiny’: Bryson, 309.
258 ‘because of its whiteness’: Binczewski.
259 ‘a process of banalization’: Hachez-Leroy, 19.
260 ‘How aluminium’: Mencken, 415.
262 ‘lacking only a thatched’: Heskett, 171.
263 ‘turned into Spitfires’: Clement, 7.
263 ‘Spitfires to saucepans’: Sparke, 138.
268 ‘the man who should’: Huxley.
273 ‘one cries out’: Vasari, 345.
274 ‘White was the colour’: Festing, 125.
276 ‘Cleopatra no doubt’: Pliny, 137n2.
279 ‘culturally consequent’: Sennett, 144; ‘The attribution of ethical’: Sennett, 137.
281 ‘soft, buttery look’: Quoted in American Scientist, July–August 1998.
282 ‘they look more like’: Storrie, 166.
Part Four: Beauty
289 ‘at the best is’: Quoted in Feller, vol. 1, 71.
294 ‘should not have’: Elliott et al.
297 ‘rolling sculpture’: Drexler, foreword.
298 ‘from wine jugs’: Bayer, Gropius and Gropius, 134.
304 ‘This relationship of woman’: Quoted on the Tate website: www.tate.org.uk.
304 ‘no metal, it seems’: Quoted in advertisement copy, New Yorker, 28 October 1933, 36.
304 ‘there is little wrong’: Keats.
306 ‘precious sheets of sapphire’: Quoted in Gage, 72.
307 ‘luminous darkness’: Gage, 71.
319 ‘doing great service’: MacCarthy, 351.
319 ‘a very dangerous piece’: Meharg, 688; ‘Killer Wallpaper’, Spectroscopy Europe, 16 (5) (2004), 16–19.
324 ‘Such a request’: ‘Much Ado about Vanadium’, Ascidian News, 51 June 2002), at http://depts.washington.edu/ascidian/AN51. html.
325 ‘Long ago there lived’: Quoted in Jorpes, 74.
326 ‘In his naming’: Jorpes, 75.
327 ‘the most esteemed’: Guyton de Morveau et al., vol. 6, 64; vol. 4, 231.
332 ‘a most astonishingly’: Ramsay and Rayleigh, 187.
332 ‘Drink to the gas’: Quoted in Travers (1956), 141.
333 ‘You get a new element’: Quoted in Travers (1956), 174.
334 ‘As Ramsay pressed’: Travers (1956), 178.
341 ‘marriage chapels’: Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour, 20.
342 ‘caught some very good’: Boyd, 157.
344 ‘an apparatus for chymical’: Read, 130.
348 ‘the Solar Calcination’: Read, 101–7.
Part Five: Earth
360 ‘an enormous undertaking’: C. H. Evans, xviii.
361 ‘any further investigation’: Suyver and Meijerink.
374 ‘It is not without great’: Quoted in C. H. Evans, 8.
Epilogue
391 ‘for some moments’: Travers (1956), 178.
393 ‘incredibly touched’: Seaborg, 254.
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