books.google.co.uk - In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining 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 nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Mendeleyev_s_Dream.html?id=qCzoF9sjTkAC&q=notion&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMendeleyev's Dream
