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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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Mendeleyev's Dream, Paul Strathern
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Mendeleyev's Dream
- Subtitle
- The Quest for the Elements
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Paul Strathern
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0140284141
- ISBN13
- 9780140284140
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, History, Science & Math, Natural sciences, Science, Biographies, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Elements
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- 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.