curium 70, 82, 171, 374
Cyprus 201, 313
Daguerre, Louis 235
Dalton, John 370
Dante Alighieri 212, 303
Darmstadt 394, 396
darmstadtium 396, 397
Darwin, Charles 107
Darwin, Erasmus 123, 158
David (Michelangelo) 272
David, Jacques-Louis 116
Davies, Alwyn 335
Davy, Edmund 177
Davy, Humphry 70, 71, 150, 156, 188, 236, 349, 376
and aluminium 260
and Berzelius 370–72
and chlorine 134–5
and sodium and potassium 176–9, 266, 360, 391
poetry of 178–9
travels to the Continent 144–5
Davy, Jane 144
DDT 135
De Re Metallica (Agricola) 165
Debierne, André-Louis 169
Deedes, William 250
Defoe, Daniel 237
Delft 310
DeLillo, Don 304
Demarçay, Eugène-Anatole 362–3
DeMille, Cecil B. 300
Departmental Ditties (Kipling) 208
Derain, André 312
Derby 117, 123
Detroit (Michigan) 299, 302, 303
Deville, Henri Sainte-Claire 256
diamond 22, 35, 39, 70, 151, 329 see also carbon
Dickens, Charles 106, 114, 182, 231
Dictionary of Received Ideas (Flaubert) 314
didymium 366, 376–7
Dmitriev, Igor 89
The Doctor’s Dilemma (Shaw) 164
Dogon people 239
Don Juan (Byron) 68
Donny, Jacqueline 168
Dos Passos, John 30, 158
Dover 242
White Cliffs of, 267
Dr. Strangelove (film) 138
Drebbel, Cornelis 120
Dubna (Russia) 349, 350, 397
dubnium 393
Dulong, Pierre-Louis 135
Dürer, Albrecht 222, 271
dysprosium 359
E numbers 29, 49
Eames, Charles 255
Earl, Harley 299–301
Ecuador 19, 32
Edinburgh 178, 349, 380
Edinburgh College of Art 349
Edward I (England) 213
Edward VIII (Great Britain) 29
Egypt, ancient 13, 18, 45, 240, 276, 295, 343
Einstein, Albert 131, 381
einsteinium 82, 374
Eisler, Hanns 251
Ekeberg, Anders 355, 374
El Dorado 18–20
electrolysis 177, 178, 245, 259–60, 263, 266, 360, 372
electrum 17
element collections
Hugh Aldersey-Williams 4–6, 9, 55, 61
Theodore Gray 56
Max Whitby 56
elements
as fundamental building blocks of matter 6
association with the solar system 51, 250
false discoveries of 71, 190, 192, 195, 366, 376
feelings on discovery of 391–4
four Aristotelian 148, 228, 392
naming of 7, 82, 260, 362–3, 376–7, 396–7
see also named elements
‘The Elements’ (Lehrer) 10, 391
Elhuyar, Fausto 32
Elhuyar, Juan José 32
Eliot, T. S. 7
Elizabeth, Queen (wife of George VI) 35
Emblems Divine and Moral (Quarles) 112
emerald 327–30
Emerald Green 316, 320
Emerson, Isaac 142
Empire of the Sun (Ballard) 300
Emsley, John 127
The Enlightenment 7, 124–5, 309, 371
erbium 349, 359, 374, 386
europium 8, 182, 359, 361–2, 364, 396
Evard, Jacques 190
Evelyn, John 66, 125
Every Word Unmade (Banner) 339
An Experiment upon a Bird in the Air Pump (Wright) 123, 124
experiments
performed by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 12, 61–5, 113, 115–23, 145–7, 205, 214–15, 227, 265
restrictions on, 5, 100, 121, 382
expositions, international
Chicago 1933 261
London 1862 187–8
Paris 1855 256
Paris 1900 363
Paris 1925 (Arts Décoratifs) 298, 337
Paris 1937 94, 251, 261
Eyeless in Gaza (Huxley) 53, 139
Façade (Walton) 253
The Faerie Queene (Spenser) 330
Falun mine (Sweden) 49, 324, 353, 378, 381
Faraday, Michael 241
accompanies Davy to the Continent 70, 144
on carbon 69–70
Faust (Goethe) 308, 330
Fawkes, Guy 231
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson) 340
Febre, Nicolas le 348
feldspar 373, 379, 385, 386
Fergusson, Vivian 134
fermium 82, 374
Fields, W. C. 142
Finland 351, 373
fireworks 181–6, 238
fission, nuclear 72, 76, 349, 385, 396
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 224
FitzWarin, Fulk 67
Flake White 314
Flanders, Michael 317
Flaubert, Gustave 154, 314, 320, 321, 389
Florence 70, 341
fluoridation 140–41
fluorine 139, 140, 142
Ford, Henry 208
Ford, Richard 52
Fors, Hjalmar 351–4, 355, 380
Forshufvud, Sten 315, 317
The Forsyte Saga (Galsworthy) 224
Fourcroy, Antoine-François de 327
France 66, 133, 144, 150, 168, 177, 185, 260, 263, 307, 353, 363, 376–7
francium 71, 170–71
Franck, James 27
Franco, Francisco 95
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 156
Frankland, Edward 192
Franklin, Benjamin 149, 239
Frederick William III (Prussia) 246
Freiberg (Germany) 85
French Academy of Sciences (Paris) 46, 144, 151, 171, 257, 377
Freud, Sigmund 216
Freyja see Vanadis
Fuchu (Japan) 292
Fuller, Richard Buckminster 262–3
Gadolin, Johan 355, 373–8, 380, 386
gadolinite 374, 375, 377, 379, 387
gadolinium 82, 359, 362, 374–7
Gahn, Johan 125, 354, 369
gallium 84–5, 361, 363, 377, 380
Galsworthy, John 224
Galveston (Texas) 105, 107
Gama, Vasco da 18
Gassed (Sargent) 132–3
Gates of Hell (Rodin) 212
Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis 143, 144
Gaza City 128
Geber see Jabir
Geevor mine (Cornwall) 202–4
Gehry, Frank 280–82
gender of the elements 46–7, 49, 224–5, 228, 234, 278, 283
Geneva 349, 376
Geoffroy, Etienne-François 28
George II (Great Britain) 181
George VI (Great Britain) 35
German Symphony (Eisler) 251
germanium 7, 85, 363, 396
Germany 25, 27, 32, 82, 127,129–31, 144, 166, 246, 247–51, 351, 354, 363, 394, 396–7
Germinal (Zola) 66
Ghiorso, Albert 393–4, 396
Gibson, William 304
Giphantie (de la Roche) 235
glucina see beryllia
glucinum see beryllium
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 147, 308, 330, 358
gold 4, 13–29, 42, 45, 51,89, 103, 165, 202, 206, 210, 213, 239, 240, 242, 256, 299, 301, 325, 327, 350, 358
and alchemy 98–9, 114–15, 190, 221, 346, 352
and immortality 16, 28, 227–8
and imperial power 11, 43, 53
as medicine 28–9
as one of the ancient metals 31, 103, 227, 278
corrupting effect o
f 17, 26
in sea water 25–6, 129
platinum compared to 30–37, 38, 39
rushes 22, 26
silver compared to 224–5, 227–8, 231–3
standard 76, 330–31
symbolism 7, 9, 46, 215–16, 278, 283
The Gold Coast (Robinson) 174
Goldberger, Paul 283
Golden Fleece 24, 221
Goldsmiths College (London) 205
Gormley, Antony 54, 219, 221–2
Göttingen University 287
Gounod, Charles 330
Grand Rapids (Michigan) 140
graphite see carbon
Gray, Theodore 56
Great Eastern (ship) 54, 245
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) 224
Greece, ancient 35, 220, 224, 271
Greeks 17, 199–200
Greek mythology 46, 48, 50, 221, 225
Grieg, Edvard 309
The Group (McCarthy) 262
guanín alloy 20–21
Guernica (Picasso) 94
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao) 280–83
Guntur (India) 191
Gustavianum (Uppsala) 355, 356
Gutenberg, Johannes 218–19
Haarlem 137
Haber, Clara 130
Haber, Eva Charlotte 131
Haber, Fritz
and chlorine as poison gas 129–31, 135
searches for gold 25–6
Haber, Lutz 130–31
Haeckel, Ernst 194
hafnium 27, 58
Hahn, Otto 72
Haldane, John Scott 157
Hall, Charles Martin 259–61
halogens 83, 86, 139, 143, 147, 174, 398 see also named elements
Hamburg 112, 114, 126–7
Hamilton, Richard 302–4
Hancock, Thomas 111
Handel, Georg Frederic 181, 185
A Handful of Dust (Waugh) 298
Hardy, Thomas 61–2
Harlow, Jean 30
Harris, Arthur 126–7
Harrogate (North Yorkshire) 197
Harwell (Oxfordshire) 76, 78, 80
hassium 395, 396
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 338
Hayden. Herbert 320
health and safety 5, 90, 96, 97, 183, 217, 290, 314
Heart (Gormley) 221
Heidelberg 179, 366
Heisenberg, Werner 76
helium 86, 192–3, 195, 197, 332
Helmholtz, Hermann von 243
Hemingway, Ernest 139, 252
Henry II (England) 67
Henry VIII (England) 240
Henze, Martin 323
Hephaestus 48
Hepworth, Barbara 274–5
Herodotus 199, 200
Héroult, Paul 259, 261
Herrington, Richard 21, 26, 201
Herschel, John 236
Hevesy, George de 27
Hinds, Richard Brinsley 108, 110, 111
Hiroshima University 323
Hisinger, Wilhelm 356, 370–72, 378
Hispaniola 18, 20, 21
Histories (Herodotus) 199
Hitler, Adolf 49, 248
Hjelm, Peter 355
Hobsbawm, Eric 363
Hoffmann, E. T. A. 49, 378
Hofmannstal, Hugo von 225
holmium 349, 355, 359, 374
Hommage à Chrysler Corp. (Hamilton) 303
Hong Kong 111
Hooke, Robert 118, 119, 237
Hoover, Herbert 165
Hoover, Lou Henry 165
Hope, Charles 178
Housman, A. E. 332
Hubble, Edwin 180
Hughes, Ellis 44
Hughes, Howard 30
Hugo, Victor 363
Humboldt, Alexander von 324
Hungary 214
Hunt, William Holman 289
Huxley, Aldous 53, 139
Huxley, Thomas 268–9
hydrogen 72, 135, 147, 149, 152–3, 154, 156, 191–2, 194–5, 197, 371, 389
Ilmarinen 43, 48
‘In Memoriam’ (Tennyson) 113
Incas 18–20, 46
India 247, 349
indium 10
The Industrial Revolution 53–4, 137, 247, 257
inert gases 59, 71, 85–6, 197, 332, 360, 393 see also named elements
Inuit people 45
iodine 5, 71–2, 83, 139, 142–7, 166, 236, 350
‘Iodine’ (Cohen) 140
iridium 9, 33, 40, 42
iron 8, 11, 31, 32, 33, 61, 66, 67, 103, 180, 181, 186, 192, 222, 227, 239, 246, 250, 259, 262, 277, 292, 311, 325, 351, 352, 368, 369, 395
and blood 49–50, 323
and meteorites 43–5
and rust 54–5, 151, 159
and the Industrial Revolution 52–4, 257
and weapons of war 45–6, 47–9
as one of the ancient metals 31, 103, 227, 250
association with Mars 50–52
association with masculinity 46–7, 49, 278, 283
Iron Cross 246
Iron (Missouri) 350
Iron (Utah) 350
Isfahan 309
Ishpeming (Michigan) 71
Istanbul 313 see also Constantinople
Italy 68, 144, 184, 199, 236, 242, 318, 363
Jabir ibn Hayyan 98–9
Jackson, Michael 160
Janssen, Pierre 191–2
Japan 48, 292
jargon see zircon
Jason (Kiefer) 220–21, 223
‘Jerusalem’ (Blake) 53
jewellery 17, 20, 29, 32, 35, 206, 208, 239, 256, 283–5, 325, 327–30, 343, 358
Jewish Museum (Berlin) 248
Jinarajadasa, Curuppumullage 193
Joachimstal (Jáchymov) (Czech Republic) 165
Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona) 95
John (England) 69
Johnson, Philip 297–8, 302
Johnson, Samuel 344–5
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric 169
Joliot-Curie, Irène 166
Jones, David 315
Josephine (France) 144, 318
Julius II (Pope) 272
Kapoor, Anish 314
Keats, John 113, 125
Kelvin, Lord see Thomson, William
Khokhlov, Nikolai 189
Kiefer, Anselm 219–23
King Richard II (Shakespeare) 234
King’s College London 210, 387
Kipling, Rudyard 208
Kirchhoff, Gustav 179, 187
Klaproth, Martin 328, 329
Klondike (Yukon) 26
Kobold 308–9
Koons, Jeff 304
Köping (Sweden) 354
Korea 219
krypton 86, 333, 334
Kubrick, Stanley 138
Kunstformen der Natur (Haeckel) 194
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence) 66
Lafarge, Marie 314, 320
Lambert, Constant 255
Lambert, Maurice 254, 255
‘Lamia’ (Keats) 113, 125
lamp black 269, 313, 343
Lamy, Claude-Auguste 187
Lancaster, Ron 182–6, 187
lanthanum 359, 367
Las Casas, Bartolomé de 20
Las Vegas 340–41
The Late George Apley (Marquand) 337–8
Laue, Max von 27
Laughlin, Zoe 210, 211, 387
Laurion mine (Greece) 232
Lavoisier, Antoine 116, 136, 159, 354, 376
analyses of waters 150
and chlorine 134
and oxygen 152–4, 371
and Priestley 151
list of simple substances 154–5, 178, 266, 392
Lawnmower Man (film) 305
Lawrence, D. H. 66
lawrencium 393
lead 7, 8, 9, 12, 75, 78, 91, 165, 170, 207, 209, 211, 229, 238–9, 252, 288, 296, 314, 362, 395
and alchemy 98, 221
and fortune-telling 213–17, 219
and gravity 11, 212–13, 279
as one of the ancient metals 31,
51, 103, 227, 246, 250, 278, 286
dull appearance 205, 213, 223
printers’ type 217, 218–19
shot 217–18, 315
Leadbeater, Charles 193–7
Leadville (Colorado) 350
Lebanon 199
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Paul-Emile 84, 85, 376–7, 380
Leeds 149
Léger, Fernand 337
Lehrer, Tom 10, 391
Leibniz, Gottfried 115
Levant mine (Cornwall) 203
Levi, Primo 204, 209, 212
Lewes, George Henry 114
Liberty Bell 212
Libeskind, Daniel 240, 250, 251
lighting
gas 172, 366, 389–90
gas discharge 331
sodium 11, 173–6
‘Lili Marleen’ (song) 172
Lille University 187
Lincoln, Abraham 244
Lindbergh, Charles 262
Linnaeus, Carl 342, 369, 375
lithium 179, 180, 187
Litvinenko, Alexander 189
Liverpool, Lord 145
Lockyer, Norman 192–3, 197
Locock, Charles 141
Loewy, Raymond 255
Loire river 200
Lolita (Nabokov) 304, 342
London 37, 47, 56, 60, 61, 66, 70, 149, 150, 152, 164, 181, 187, 189, 236, 241, 242, 312, 349, 350, 351, 354, 380
London University 193 see also University College London
Longwood House (St Helena) 316–18
Los Alamos (New Mexico) 75
Los Angeles 174, 282, 303, 337
Louis XIV (France) 348
Louis XVI (France) 115
Louisiana Museum (Denmark) 55, 220
Louvre Museum (Paris) 144, 257
Lovelock, James 389
Luce, Clare Boothe 318
Lunar Society 123, 125, 128
Lundgren, Anders 355–6, 358, 380
lutetium 359
Lynn, Vera 267
Maastricht 173
Madame Bovary (Flaubert) 154, 320
Madrid 33, 95, 241
Magdeburg 235
Magna Carta 67
magnalium 184, 264–5
magnesia 178
magnesium 57, 58, 59, 166, 178, 180, 184, 264, 265, 284, 332, 367, 382
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