Description: In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining 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 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.condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages. Former library copy.
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EAN: 9780312262044
Book Title: Mendeleyev's Dream : the Quest for the Elements
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: History, Chemistry / General, Science & Technology
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Revised
Genre: Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Paul Strathern
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
