Caesar's last breath: decoding the secrets of the air around us
✍ Scribed by Sam Kean
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0316465194
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it. With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds on the Senate floor, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding; in fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's...