Mauve by Simon Garfield

240 pages digital 2000

10 editions

nonfiction art history science informative slow-paced
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Perkin found mauve by chance, at the age of 18, working on a treatment for malaria. Instead of artificial quinine he produced a dark oily sludge that, much to his surprise, turned silk a beautiful light purple. The colour was unique. It not only s...

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