Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements - Couverture rigide

Strathern, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1643130692 ISBN 13 : 9781643130699

Editeur : Pegasus Books, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul Strathern's narrative nonfiction includes The Other Renaissance, The Venetians, Death in Florence, The Medici, Mendeleyev's Dream, The Florentines, Empire, and The Borgias, all available from Pegasus Books. He is also a Somerset Maugham Award-winning novelist. Paul lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1643130692
• ISBN 13: 9781643130699
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible