Mendeleyev’s Dream The Quest for the Elements
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Full Title

Mendeleyev\'s Dream The Quest for the Elements
Author(s)

Paul Strathern
Edition
ISBN

9781466873421
Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.

Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the periodic table in a dream–the template upon which modern chemistry is founded and the formulation of which marked chemistry’s coming of age as a science. From ancient philosophy through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, Mendeleyev’s Dream is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man’s dream.

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