Book cover for Mendeleyev's dream : the quest for the elements

Mendeleyev's dream : the quest for the elements

Publisher: St. Martins Press
ISBN13: 9780312262044
Format: Classic Audio
Description
<div>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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /></div>
Publisher St. Martins Press
ISBN10 0312262043
ISBN13 9780312262044
Number of Pages 309
File Size DL-142MB
Shelf Number GN260
Grade Range
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download