Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements
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The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. **One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations** 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. Review: Es la historia básica de las alquimia - Habla muy poco de Mendeleiev. No es una biografía, sino una breve historia de la alquimia. Review: Best book I've read this year - Best book I've read this year! <3 It'sa brief history of chemistry and the development of science overall and it's incredibly interesting to read!
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 Reviews |
J**Z
Es la historia básica de las alquimia
Habla muy poco de Mendeleiev. No es una biografía, sino una breve historia de la alquimia.
E**A
Best book I've read this year
Best book I've read this year! <3 It'sa brief history of chemistry and the development of science overall and it's incredibly interesting to read!
A**T
Informative book with exciting infos about the development of Chemistry
Nice history about the emergence of Chemistry as a science from the darkness of Alchemy. Can be enjoyed by youngs and adults alike. Personally I would have liked more paragraphs about the alchemic knowledges of anient India. Nice binding and quality of pages. Quaity of black and white photographs could have been better.
P**S
Recommend for anyone interest in the subject but particularly for high school student.
Mendeleyev's Dream by Paul Strathern [review 0851 - science - history chemistry] As an adult with no formal training in Chemistry I found this a very useful and entertaining book. The author goes to great lengths to show that early discoveries were mostly an accidental by product of trying various recipes to transform by alchemy a compound into gold. Stories of various wizards, necromancers and outright charlatans with their beakers and retorts attempting the impossible and discovering a technique or a new compound keep my interest. Slowly and methodically, with many back slips the body of chemical understanding was expanded. What seemed to many a crazy quilt of knowledge started to solidify into a science. Author Strathern is able to maintain a lively narrative of the foibles and breakthroughs over many centuries. No easy feat indeed. The opening and concluding chapters concern Mendeleyev discovery of the periodic table. Strathern's description of this man, his short fuse of a temper and his discovery are worth the price of the book. Helpful is the inclusion of a listing of selected readings by chapter and an index. This book reads like a primer for the curious about a most fascinating subject. I would recommend it for anyone interest in the subject but particularly for high school student.
G**S
The Periodic Table
A good read and an interesting insight into how the Periodic Table as we know it came to be
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