• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Pyrite : a natural history of fool's gold
  • Contributor: Rickard, David T. [Author]
  • Published: New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Published in: Oxford scholarship online
  • Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages); illustrations (black and white, and colour)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190203672.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780197559482
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  • Keywords: Pyrites ; Pyrites History ; Mineralogy
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  • Footnote: Previously issued in print: 2015. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: Geochemist David Rickard explores pyrite's influence on human history, culture and science, and reveals how fool's gold became a universal symbol for everything overvalued.