Caesars Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us Kean SamPaperback
Caesars Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us Kean SamPaperback The Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating…
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Caesars Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us Kean SamPaperback
The Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe.It's invisible. Without it, you would die in minutes. It's ever-present.
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. 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. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra's