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Mendeleyev's Dream : The Quest for the Elements
Author(s): Paul Strathern (Author)
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
- Publication Date: January 1, 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0140284141
- ISBN-13: 9780140284140
Book Description
In this 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 19th century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at this desk and awoke after dreaming of the Periodic Table – 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, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man’s dream.
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