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Mendeleyev's Dream

Paul Strathern

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#3108 of 3,809 books · #387 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2001).

In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining book, Paul Strathern 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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Publisher
Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781466873421
Topics
History of chemistryPeriodic tableAlchemy

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