Eric Scerri is a chemist, writer, and philosopher of science. He is a world authority on the history and philosophy of the periodic table. His work focuses on how chemical discoveries shape our understanding of the world and the philosophical implications that arise from them. His writings explore not only scientific concepts but also deeper questions about the nature of scientific knowledge and its evolution.
The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance traces the evolution and development of the periodic table, from Mendeleev's 1869 first published table and onto the modern understanding provided by modern physics.
The author presents a new philosophy of science in the grand tradition that has recently been deemed impossible. Scerri believes that science develops as a holistic entity, which is fundamentally unified even though the individuals making up the body scientific are frequently in competition among each other. He draws inspiration from a conviction that the world is essentially unified in the way that has been described by both Western and Eastern philosophers. --
In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the fascinating history of those seven elements discovered to be mysteriously missing from the periodic table in 1913.
A beautifully illustrated, full-colour guide to the periodic table and the stories behind its most significant elements.
In this authoritative Very Short Introduction to The Periodic Table, Eric Scerri presents a modern and fresh exploration of this fundamental topic in the physical sciences, considering the deeper implications of the arrangements of the table to atomic physics and quantum mechanics.