Well-Ordered Thing

Gordin (history, Princeton U.) does not provide a traditional biography of polymath Russian scientist Mendeleev (1834-1907), but places his various endeavors an... » 

Gordin (history, Princeton U.) does not provide a traditional biography of polymath Russian scientist Mendeleev (1834-1907), but places his various endeavors and accomplishments--of which the periodic table of elements is the best known--within the social, cultural, and political milieu of late-19th-Century Saint Petersburg. Annotation 2004 Book Ne «