Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry

Imperial College Press | June 9, 2008 | ASIN: 1848161379 | 248 pages | PDF | 15.8 MB

Eric Scerri's new book is a most appropriate work to mark the centenary of the death of Dimitri Mendeleev. The title -- The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance -- gives a fair idea of the book's contents, and the author's approach and perspective are captured by his statement that he is concentrating on `the fundamental scientific and philosophical ideas that underpinned the evolution of the system.' This, then, is a book about scientific ideas. Scerri does provide brief biographical sketches of each of his scientific protagonists, but biographical, social and cultural context rarely intrude into the narrative.

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