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[MENDELEEV’S LEGACY] D.I. Mendeleev i znachenie ego periodicheskoi sistemy dlia khimii budushchego [i.e. D.I. Mendeleev and Value of his Periodic Table for Chemistry of the Future]

Morozov, N.A.

Moscow: typ. tov-va I.D. Sytina, 1907. Item #351

103, XI pp., 3 port., 1 table. 23,5x16,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Lacking spine paper, bookshops’ stamps and label on the back cover, a couple of pencil markings on the margins. Otherwise good clean copy.

First and only edition. Rare.
This is an interesting first account of Mendeleev’s life and work, a compilation of two public lectures by Nikolai Morozov (1854-1946) with three Dmitry Mendeleev’s portraits and seven tables. The book was published later in the year of Mendeleev’s death. In this book Morozov explicated scientific problems on which Mendeleev worked and the historic context. In the first lecture he gave scientist’s biography and history of his discovery. In his second lecture Morozov tried to analyze results of the discovery and prospects for the future in this regard. In the application he brought tables with atoms’ structures of mineral elements.
Morozov wrote many books and articles on various subjects mostly of popular science nature. In the works on chemistry that attracted Mendeleyev’s attention, his prophetic statements about the complex composition of atoms and the possibility of transforming elements and interesting observations on their classification, stimulated, probably, by Lochier’s works, are combined with ungrounded speculative constructions.

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