The chemistry of beauty A scientific account of art and everyday beauty

A moving story in which we discover the beauty of everyday life through a scientific prism.

The neighbourhood where we grew up, the squawking of seagulls, the rosy sky that anticipates a sunny day, the smell of old books, the black and white photos of grandparents, the sea, the fashion magazines of the sixties, urban flowers or a desk with names engraved on it? All of them everyday beauties that often go unnoticed.

Deborah García Bello, award-winning chemist and populariser, invites us to enjoy the wonder of these everyday beauties and to savour the extraordinary beauties in peace and quiet. From the happiness of an ordinary day to the fascination of a work of art, the author reveals an original investigation in which art communicates with us through its materials. Because knowing about chemistry is like walking through life with eyes that look on an atomic scale. All that is beautiful, good and true is seen more clearly through scientific knowledge.

We will discover the world within the world, the beautiful within the beautiful, in a tale of manners where narrative is mixed with scientific dissemination, which brings science and art down from their ivory towers, and which reveals to us that the most dazzling things are to be found in the everyday life around us.

Publisher: Paidós