This magical book is a totally original collection that features gorgeous, never-before-seen photographic representations of the 118 elements in the periodic table - plus facts, figures and fascinating stories about each one! The elements are what we, and everything around us, are made of. But how many elements have you seen in their pure, raw, uncombined form? This book provides that rare opportunity - Based on five years of research and photography, the pictures presented in this book make up the most complete and visually arresting representation available to the naked eye of every atom in the universe.

西奧多·格雷(Theodore Gray)，住在美國伊利諾伊州尚佩恩-厄巴納市(Champaign-Urbana)。他是一位化學傢，是美國著名科普雜誌《大眾科學》(Popular Science)的專欄作者，探索、頻道(Discovery Channel)節目嘉賓，蘋果公司CEO喬布斯的好朋友。他還是著名的科學計算軟件公司沃爾夫勒姆研究公司(Wolfram Research)的創建人之一，是該公司世界領先的技術軟件係統Mathematica和Wolfram Alpha的製作人。他更是一個對化學元素周期錶最瘋狂的愛好者。他創辦瞭元素周期錶網站periodictable．com，創作瞭眾多獨樹一幟的圖標式元素周期錶，它們已經被廣泛張貼在美國的學校和博物館中。