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Review: I'm the US editor for this book, and I wanted to answer the questions below. It was brought to our attention late in the game (by Oliver Sacks, no less) that zinc (I believe) was known in Asia before phosphorus was known in Europe, making the latter the 14th element discovered on a world-scale. However, because the book has a European focus, and there phosphorus was #13, we decided to keep the title as it was.Naturally, I'm rating this book with 5 stars not just because I want to sell lots of copies but because we wouldn't have acquired it otherwise. It is great fun, especially the material on spontaneous human combustion.
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