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Paul Strathern: Mendeleyev’s Dream; The Quest for the Elements
In the Beginning
In order to understand the problem which Mendeleyev was attempting to solve, it is necessary to go back to the very origin of scientific thought.
Greece. The first appearance of genuine scientific thinking is traditionally credited to Thales, who lived in the sixth century BC in the Greek city of Miletus on the shore of Ionia.
Well over a millennium beforehand both the Babylonians and the ancient Egyptians had developed superior civilizations capable of highly advanced thought. Advanced observation and measurement had been the domain of the priestly castes in both Babylon and Egypt. These technical abilities, and any theoretical speculation they provoked, were a part of religious practice.
When the first stirring of scientific curiosity took place in ancient Greece, it was not linked to any religion.
Thales’ thinking was scientific because it could provide evidence for its conclusions. And it was philosophy because it used reason to reach these conclusions: there was no appeal to the gods or mysterious metaphysical forces.
Curiously, this was not the only major step in the evolution of human thought which took place during the sixth century BC. Quite independently, in other parts of the gl
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St Sylvester, pope and confessor, 335. St Columba, virgin and martyr, 3d century. St Melania the Younger, 439. - Born. - Hermann Boerhaave, distinguished physician, 1668, Voorhout, near Leyden; Charles Edward Stuart, younger Pretender, 1721, Rome; Dr Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, phrenologist, 1776, Longwich, near Trêves. Died. - Commodus, Roman emperor, murdered, 192 A.D.; Thomas Erastus, … Continue reading 31st of December – Hogmanay (New Year’s Eve)→
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