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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern (Paperback, 2001)

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Author:Strathern, Paul. South Asian Folktales, Myths and Lege., Shaffi, Sarah. Book Binding:Paperback / softback. Book Condition:ACCEPTABLE. Prizes:Short-listed for Aventis Prizes for Science Books: General Prize 2001.

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In this 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 19th century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at this desk and awoke after dreaming of the Periodic Table - 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.