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Mendeleyev's Dream

Mendeleyev's Dream

Paul Strathern
2000
T3 320 pages · about 5h 20m to read OL21928Wgoodreads

The search for the periodic table; reasoning from the elements upward

Biography of ScientistsScience

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First-Principles Reasoning
Mental models

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