Esther Leslies nya bok, Synthetic Worlds, tycks fascinerande: om kemi och kemisk industri och dess relation till konsten och kulturen, från sent 1800-tal och framåt: ... chemistry has granted new colours and surfaces, new substances, coatings and textures to the world. Often they are the result of accidents or the by-products of pollution. Chemistry has also invented simulants and surrogates for naturally occurring materials. Sometimes these developments confounded earlier alchemical and Romantic philosophies of science and nature, but, at other times, dynamic theories of chemical action combined with the emergent chemistry textbook orthodoxy. Förlaget anger april 2005 som publiceringsdatum, men jag undrar om den verkligen släppts än - hittar inga recensioner via Google.