A Well-Ordered Thing (eBook)

Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Revised Edition

Michael D. Gordin (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18442-5 (ISBN)

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Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he also serves as the Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. His books include Scientific Babel and Five Days in August (Princeton).

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Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing is an authoritative biography of Mendeleev that draws a multifaceted portrait of his life for the first time. As Michael Gordin reveals, Mendeleev was not only a luminary in the history of science, he was also an astonishingly wide-ranging political and cultural figure. From his attack on Spiritualism to his failed voyage to the Arctic and his near-mythical hot-air balloon trip, this is the story of an extraordinary maverick. The ideals that shaped his work outside science also led Mendeleev to order the elements and, eventually, to engineer one of the most fascinating scientific developments of the nineteenth century. A Well-Ordered Thing is a classic work that tells the story of one of the world's most important minds.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Schlagworte: academician • Academy of Sciences • Albert Einstein • Aluminium • Analogy • Antoine Lavoisier • assassination • autocracy • Big Science • Boyle's law • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Calculation • Capitalism • Career • Censorship • Chemical element • chemical property • Chemical Society • chemical substance • chemist • Chemistry • Chlorine • classification • Criticism • cultural conflict • dialectical materialism • Dmitrii Mendeleev • Dmitri Mendeleev • economy • Educational Reform • Emil Erlenmeyer • European science • Explanation • exploration • gas laws • Gay-Lussac's law • general examinations • Germanium • Great Reforms • Gregorian calendar • Harvard University • History of Science • hostility • hypothesis • Imperial Academy of Sciences • Imperial Petersburg • Imperial Russia • Imperial systems • individual innovation • Institution • Intelligentsia • Julian calendar • Justus von Liebig • Lecture • Liberalism • Luminiferous aether • Marxism • Maverick • Mediumistic Phenomena • meteorology • Metric system • Molecule • Mr. • narrative • Natural science • newspaper • Newton's law of universal gravitation • nitrogen • Nobility • Organic Chemistry • Pamphlet • periodic law • Periodic system • periodic table • phenomenon • Philosophy • philosophy of science • Physical Chemistry • physicist • Physics • Political Economy • Politics • Populism • Prediction • Proper noun • Prout's hypothesis • Pseudoscience • Publication • public lecture • Quantity • rebuttal • Relative atomic mass • Religion • Research Program • Revolution of 1905 • rhetoric • Rule of Law • Russia • Russian Academy of Sciences • Russian chauvinism • Russian Chemical Society • Russian culture • Russian education • russian nobility • Russian Physical Society • russians • Russian Spiritualism • Russian stability • Russification • Scandium • Science • Scientific Method • scientific societies • Scientist • SEANCES • Sergei Witte • sodium • Spiritualism • Statute • St. Petersburg • St. Petersburg University • student rebellion • Superstition • tariff • Teaching • Technology • terrorism • Textbook • theory • tsarist regime • universality • unrest • Vladimir Putin • Weather forecasting • Western Europe • William Crookes • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18442-9 / 0691184429
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18442-5 / 9780691184425