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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements - Paul Ferguson - 11-12-2024
"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."
https://www.amazon.com/Mendeleyevs-Dream-Elements-Paul-Strathern/dp/0140284141
Extract here about Newton the alchemist:
https://vk.com/wall134211218_22430