The Gnomes of Ball Mansion have been busy again. Following up on his excellent, if lightly flawed (he forgot mercury!) The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery–read my review here /2
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/its-elementary-dear-readers/
Philip Ball has delivered up a new big picture book, Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science. Buy a copy as a Christmas present for the historian of science in your life