Mendeleyev's Dream
The Quest for the Elements
Paul Strathern
Discover the wondrous history of chemistry and human's quest for the fundamentals that culminated in one man's dream that changed the way we see the world. Follow the life of Dmitri Mendeleyev, a nineteenth-century Russian scientist who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the periodic table in a dream. Explore the birth of chemistry, from ancient philosophy to modern science, in this elegant and entertaining book by author Paul Strathern.
Publish Date
2002-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
2002-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 2001
Goodreads Rating
4.02
ISBN
0425184676
Recommendations
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2023-01-10T18:01:55.000Z
@kevin2kelly It's a bimodal distribution between AI technicians and AI philosophers. Sort of like the alchemy phase of chemistry, before atomic theory and the periodic table.
Speaking of which, this book is the best I read all year: – source