Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements

[Paul Ferguson]

"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...0140284141

Extract here about Newton the alchemist:

https://vk.com/wall134211218_22430