Download or read book The Magic Furnace written by Marcus Chown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life. It is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined, for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms, and the atoms the solution to the secret of stars.