Mendeleyev's Dream
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Mendeleyev's Dream

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Mendeleyev's Dream

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**One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations* The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed would fundamentally change the way we see the world.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, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man's dream. In this elegant, erudite, and entertaining book, Paul Strathern unravels the quixotic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781643131689
Topic
History
Subtopic
Science History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Prologue
  6. 1. In the Beginning
  7. 2. The Practice of Alchemy
  8. 3. Genius and Gibberish
  9. 4. Paracelsus
  10. 5. Trial and Error
  11. 6. The Elements of Science
  12. 7. A Born-again Science
  13. 8. Things Never Seen Before
  14. 9. The Great Phlogiston Mystery
  15. 10. The Mystery Solved
  16. 11. A Formula for Chemistry
  17. 12. The Search for a Hidden Structure
  18. 13. Mendeleyev
  19. 14. The Periodic Table
  20. Further Reading
  21. Index
  22. Also by Paul Strathern
  23. Copyright