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Scerri's latest book,
"The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance"
This book is a successor to van Spronsen, and goes further in evaluating the extent to which modern physics attempts to explain the periodic system.
...written to a high scholarship standard , "The Periodic Table" is the only book of its kind now in print giving both an historical and philosophical view to the development of this icon of chemistry.
To the Left Step Periodic Table and Back
Presenting the Left-Step Periodic Table, education in Chemistry - discussing the presentation of the periodic system's chemical and philosophical principles.....
... arising from the discovery of triads based on atomic weight, the periodic table is now further enhanced by confirming their primary importance. It discusses the fundamental nature of the elements - as basic substances instead of simple substances.
Scerri's meeting with the greatest modern philosopher of science, Sir Karl Popper
They discuss the discovery of element 72, hafnium, as an early vindication of the quantum theoretical approach to the explanation of the periodic system
...this revision of the story should be interesting to philosophers of science, who are often concerned with the degree to which a given theory rigorously predicts or merely accounts for phenomena and facts already known.
Brief reviews of books concerning
the periodic table, chemistry, atoms, and the elements.
...including Dmitri Mendeleyev and the Periodic Table: (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained), Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Power of the Periodic Table: The Secret of Change in the Universe, the Chemical Reaction, Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry, and A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitri Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table.
Reviews of Eric Scerri's new book
Reviewers are calling this book the long-awaited successor to van Spronsen's classic on the periodic table.
Eric Scerri has been publishing articles on the periodic table for over 20 years and is the editor of Foundations of Chemistry a journal devoted to the History and Philosophy of Chemistry.
...it brings a philosophical perspective to the study of the periodic table in addition to discussing historical and educational developments
