延伸阅读

Philip Ball，Bright Earth：The Invention of Colour，Vintage（2008）．

Rodney Cotterill，The Material World，CUP（2008）．

Michael Faraday，The Chemical History of a Candle，OUP Oxford（2011）．

Stephen Fenichell，Plastic：The Making of a Synthetic Century，HarperCollins（1996）．

J．E．Gordon，New Science of Strong Materials：Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor，Penguin（1991）．

—，Structures：Or Why Things Don't Fall Down，Penguin（1978）．

Philip Howes and Zoe Laughlin，Material Matters：New Materials in Design，Black Dog Publishing（2012）．

Chris Lefteri，Materials for Inspirational Design，Rotovision（2006）．

Primo Levi，The Periodic Table，Penguin，new edition（2000）．

Gerry Martin and Alan Macfarlane，The Glass Bathyscape：How Glass Changed the World，Profile Books（2002）．

Harold McGee，McGee on Food and Cooking：An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science，History and Culture，Hodder & Stoughton（2004）．

Matilda McQuaid，Extreme Textiles：Designing for High Performance，Princeton Architectural Press（2005）．

Cyril Stanley Smith，A Search for Structure：Selected Essays on Sci-ence，Art and History，MIT Press（1981）．

Arthur Street and William Alexander，Metals in the Service of Man，Penguin（1999）．