Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements Strathern, Paul

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