![]() ![]() ![]() Por su estudio sobre el sida en Gran Bretaña, The End of Innocence, obtuvo el premio Somerset Maugham. Curiosa historia de la correspondencia, y editor de una trilogía de diarios del Mass Observation Archive -Our Hidden Lives, We are at War y Private Battles-, que proporcionan información única sobre la II Guerra Mundial y sus secuelas. De cómo el mundo adquirió su aspecto (Taurus 2013) y Postdata. Un libro sobre fuentes tipográficas (Taurus 2011), En el mapa. Simon Garfield (Londres, 1960) es autor de más de una docena de exitosos libros de no ficción, entre ellos los best sellers internacionales Es mi tipo. Perkin's astonishing discovery, engagingly told in Mauve, had fundamental effects on the development of explosives, perfume, photography and modern medicine - effects that colour everything we see today. It not only stormed the fashion houses of Paris and London, it earned Perkin a fortune and generated huge industries in the new science of applied chemistry. ![]() Instead of artificial quinine he produced a dark oily sludge that, much to his surprise, turned silk a beautiful light purple. ![]() But in 1856 a chemist called William Perkin found a way of making colour from coal.Perkin found mauve by chance, at the age of 18, working on a treatment for malaria. Before 1856, artificial colour was derived with difficulty and at enormous expense from animals, minerals or plants. Sinopsis Mauve is the beguiling story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him. Simon Garfield’s past work includes a whole book about the color mauve and last year’s delightful Just My Type, an ebullient survey of facts about fonts and typography. ![]()
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