A well-ordered thing : Dmitrii Mendeleev and the shadow of the periodic table /
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| Author / Creator: | Gordin, Michael D. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Basic Books, c2004. |
| Description: | xx, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5160108 |
Table of Contents:
- Note to the Reader
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Liberalism in the Name of Autocracy
- Making Sense of the Man
- 2. Elements of the System
- The Education of Dmitrii Mendeleev
- Principles of Chemistry and the Periodic System
- System into Law
- Clairvoyance
- The Vindication of Prophecy
- Conclusion
- 3. The Ideal Gas Lawyer
- True Bedrock
- Confined Spaces
- Clearing the Atmosphere
- The Weather Overground
- Plagued by Theory
- 4. Chasing Ghosts
- Made in America, Remade in Russia
- Spiritualism in 1875
- Spiritualism in 1876
- Public Spirited
- At Wit's End
- 5. The Great Reaction
- Social Climbing
- The Ballot Booth
- Tempest in the Teapot
- Outside the Teapot
- Back Rooms
- To Thine Own Self
- 6. The Imperial Turn
- The Two Petersburgs
- Real Economics
- Theoretical Economics
- Theoretical Politics
- Measure of All the Russias
- Conclusion
- 7. Making Newtons
- Out of Siberia
- Russian Newton
- Northward Bound
- Full of Hot Air
- The Limits of Romance
- 8. Disintegration
- Chemistry under Attack
- Pondering the Imponderable
- Tripartite Metaphysics
- Things Fall Apart
- 9. Conclusion: The Many Mendeleevs
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Frontispiece Images
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
