Mendeleyev's Dream

Categories: History, Science & Math

Paul Strathern tells the history of chemistry from ancient Greek philosophers and alchemists to Dmitri Mendeleyev's creation of the periodic table.

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• Bill Gates: “Paul Strathern's terrific book Mendeleyev's Dream traces that journey all the way back to ancient Greece, when people first started questioning why the world is the way it is.”