By Eric Scerri

This booklet comprises key articles via Eric Scerri, the major authority at the background and philosophy of the periodic desk of the weather and the writer of a best-selling ebook at the topic. The articles discover more than a few themes equivalent to the historic evolution of the periodic process in addition to its philosophical prestige and its courting to fashionable quantum physics. This quantity comprises a few in-depth study papers from journals in background and philosophy of technology, in addition to quantum chemistry. different articles are from extra obtainable magazines like American Scientist. the writer has additionally supplied an in depth new advent with the intention to combine this paintings masking a interval of 2 many years. This must-have ebook is totally specific as there's not anything of this way at present in the marketplace.

Readership: educational readers: philosophers and technology historians, technological know-how educators, chemists and physicists.

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