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- Title: Mendeleyev's Dream
- Author: Paul Strathern
- ISBN: 9780425184677
- Page: 465
- Format: Trade Paperback
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Unlimited Mendeleyev's Dream - by Paul Strathern
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A very accessible, non fiction telling of the epic journey and transmutation of the collective human intellect through the ages The book guides us through the labyrinth of dead ends and discoveries from Thales of Miletus in ancient Greece, through Mendeleyev of mid 19th century Czarist Russia that precipitated the identification and classification of the known elements Though this may sound boring it is not.Strathern illuminates all of the major characters, their lives, and their intellectual en [...]
This is a very good book It not only made me understand the shift from alchemy to chemistry, the search for elements and the or less bizarre people involved in both but also what is the trouble with most popularized accounts that claim to be about the history of science Strathern is both a historian and a scientist Most other authors are only half historians and half scientists, at least when they set out to write their books which turn out to be or less sloppy products Strathern is anything b [...]
This is a history of chemistry, loosely organized around Mendeleyev s discovery that the elements can be understood as a periodic table After a brief, tantalizing look at Mendeleyev and the challenge he faced, the author leaps off into a scatter shot history of chemistry, where he spends the bulk of his text I would have much preferred an actual focus on Mendeleyev, who was a fascinating person Strathern s chemical history is uneven Some parts are thorough and interesting particularly the Arabs [...]
I really hated this book The author has nothing but contempt for the philosophers and thinkers who predated the development of Modern Science, variously describing them as mystics, in error, misguided, or even tricksters or charlatans Surely some of them were, but most of them were people of their time, striving to understand their world to the best of their ability, their ability being blunted by whatever prejudices they grew up with, which is no different than scientists are today Strathern po [...]
I expected the book to be about Mendelev, but he only appears in the preface and at the very end Instead, the vast majority of the book is a history of what was to become chemistry, from the ancient Egyptians concerned with mummification up until the discovery of the Periodic Table.I ve read critiques of this book complaining that it gives the false impression that science proceeds in a straight line by omitting a lot of context around the historic episodes he presents, but I didn t take it tha [...]
This was a very readable history of chemistry, focusing on the people who made the greatest advances, including philosophers and experimentalists The writing was a bit awkward, sometimes a word was used multiple times in close proximity and I detected a couple of minor errors The book starts and ends with the story of Dmitri Mendeleev s arrangement of the known elements to form the original periodic table It would have Ben interesting to add an epilogue about the ways that the periodic table has [...]
Many times it is difficult to decide how to rate a book In this case I have decided this book is dry and boring as my husband, who has a great tolerance for science and history tomes, has been trying to read it for nearly a week and he falls asleep within 15 minutes.
Jie Wen Guan Due Date 9 6 12ISMDear ISM teachers, The book I choose to read was Mendeleyev s Dream The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern The author is telling about Mendeleyev and the problem of chemical elements Mendeleyev was a Russian chemist and also a professor of chemistry at St Petersburg university His investigation was the problem of chemical elements There were sixty three chemical elements discovered and every one of these elements consist of different atoms The atoms had their [...]
O livro tem uma pegada de humor bem sedutora unindo pistas que levaram a qu mica ser o que , encontrando as na filosofia, passando pela alquimia, at chegar na matem tica e f sica, o autor sempre insere uma fofoca no meio Mendeleiev cortava o cabelo apenas uma vez por ano com um tosquiador de ovelhas, Tales de Mileto ganhou dinheiro prensando azeitonas, Avicena era um beberr o, Tom s de Aquino praticou clandestinamente a alquimia, Paracelso bebia de maneira espetacular o que tornava ainda mais pe [...]
I expected this book to be primarily about Mendeleyev but 2 3 of the book is a thorough history of the development of the scientific method in Europe It would be a good history, but the author irksomely takes an interest in the gossip on each famous scientist After dutifully describing each s accomplishment, as a history of science requires you to do, the author delves into some personal tabloid factoid about the scientist, usually about their sexuality or their poor familial relations I m readi [...]
Really liking it so far, facinating, well written, and it s giving me a long list of other things to look in to once i ve finished readingJust at the start, we haven t heard a lot about Mendeleyev yet apart from the fact that he had a very impressive beard and had his hair cut once a year by a shepherd I picked it up from an interest in Chemistry, I did study it up to A level although not that successfully So far it s been talking about the philosophical shift in the beliefs of how the universe [...]
De geschiedenis van de scheikunde van de oude grieken Democritus atomen tot aan Mendelejevs Periodiek Systeem.Het verhaal wordt verteld ahv de vooruitgang door filosofen, goochelaars, alchemisten, uitvinders en geleerden.Het verhaal van duistere alchemie goud maken van ijzer, zoektocht naar steen der wijzen dat pas in de 18e eeuw echte wetenschap werd.Zelfs mensen als Galileo en Newton hielden zich nog met alchemie bezig Erg leuk om te lezen hoe geniale onderzoekers worstelen met principes die e [...]
This is a wonderful read through the history of science However it deals only superficially with the subject matter of Mendeleyev s life and work Most of the book focuses on the history of science from ancient times until Mendeleyev s discovery The passages regarding the history of alchemy, including Newton building a brick furnace in the grounds of a Cambridge university solely for this pursuit, are particularly well presented However it deals only superficially with the subject of Mendeleyev h [...]
Science history at its best This wonderful story reminds us that the birth of modern chemistry and particle physics can both be linked directly to Mendeleyev s discovery of the periodic table, published 1869 Strathern argues that prior to Mendeleyev s discovery, chemistry was still in fact alchemy Without the periodic table, chemicals were infinitely permutable, and therefore the search for how to make gold was part of every chemist s work.Srathern s stye is elegant and eloquent.
An appalling work in the very worst and very out of date style of History of Science Contemptuous, in that triumphalist, aren t we a lot cleverer than our ancestors way of anything that doesn t seem to contribute to Chemistry as we know it today, this isn t historical in the sense of understanding the past on its terms in any real sense There are much better works on mankind s relationship with the elements.
This is a well written book filled with informative vignettes about fascinating people, so why do I dislike it Its tone is unpleasant, and it contains far too much judgement, insinuation, and mockery Strathern is trained in philosophy and his cynicism about many of the great scientists and historical ideas seems to result from his atheistic and evolutionary worldview Read my complete review anniekateshomeschoolreviews
And what a dream it was Strathem s prose weaves together the intellectual history that lead up to the snowy day when Mendeleyev formulates the periodic table This book is wonderfully written I highly recommend it for all interested in the periodic table, alchemy and chemistry, the history and philosophy of science, the process of science, intellectual history, or just want a spellbinding tale of how we got the periodic table All chemistry majors should read this book.
I found this book absolutely amazing Strathern writes a clear and non nerd friendly history of chemistry with its culmination in the periodic table of elements as set up by Mendeleyev Strathern also treats the history of the disputes and heart wrenching moments of deviation that could have set back this central aspect of science for centuries.
It ended rather abruptly, I thought We encounter Mendeleyev at the beginning of the book, leave him and go through centuries of the history of chemistry which is interesting than it sounds , return to Mendeleyev when he, after a dream, comes up the periodic table Five or so pages later, the book ends.
This is a great book for developing knowledge of chemistry and the history of chemical knowledge and Alchemy Anyone interested in chemistry or specific element or elements would be well off to read this book to understand about the developments associated to the discovery of a great many of the elements and the path that led to modern chemical practices and theory.
Overall a decent book on the history of chemistry, but the author clearly had biases regarding certain figures and their discoveries research personal lives etc It also took a while to read because at times it was kind of boring Decent book, but prob won t read again The Disappearing Spoon was MUCH better.
While providing fascinating portraits from the parade of science e.g Paracelsus, Lavoisier, Mendeleyev, etc this narrative ultimately delivers an underwhelming account of the discovery of the chemical elements and their arrangement into the periodic table.
Non fiction, The story of the quest for the elements and the fascinating story of how Mendeleyev organized them It seems so simple now but was revolutionary when he first did it.
Alchemy or Chemistry What scientific findings made it possible to abandon one and move on to the other Food for thought.