Summary Chapter Thirteen Chapter 13
was a time when people used metals like gold and silver as currency. Kean talks about the attention gold rushes brings and how people were constantly being confused with iron pyrite. Kean mentions other elements such as tellurium, aluminum and europium and how they were used in currency.
In the fourteenth chapter, related to chapter thirteen, Kean talks how money and science comes together since science was becoming more and more expensive, the ones who could make the big discoveries were the ones who had money. Kean brings up Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a writer who made bold claims in science and politics but was never actually had a specialty in either subjects. Lastly, Robert Lowell, the man who had mental issues. In his mental episodes,
In the fourteenth chapter, related to chapter thirteen, Kean talks how money and science comes together since science was becoming more and more expensive, the ones who could make the big discoveries were the ones who had money. Kean brings up Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a writer who made bold claims in science and politics but was never actually had a specialty in either subjects. Lastly, Robert Lowell, the man who had mental issues. In his mental episodes,