The book is the work of Dr. Robert M. Kedzie, a Union surgeon during the American Civil War and later professor of chemistry at Michigan State Agricultural college (now MSU).

“These old books with toxic dyes may be in universities, public libraries and private collections,” said Abigail Hoermann, a chemistry student at the Nashville school who assisted with the study.

Weinstein-Webb was intrigued to hear about how the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library had previously examined its own 19th-century books for the presence of an arsenic compound known as copper ...

New book ‘Alaïa by Seklaoui’ sees photographer Anthony Seklaoui given access to the Alaïa atelier, ... minds and crafts coming together to create the secret chemistry of a collection. ... Curator ...

Science and Progress after WWII. If a civilization is judged by the wisdom of its ways, the 21st century owes considerable gratitude to one woman, Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring, published in ...