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"This volume is an important addition to the rapidly growing body of literature in the philosophy of chemistry. In its insight, liveliness, and broad coverage, it will be a rare treat for philosophers, historians, scientists and science educators alike. -- AMBIX ""AMBIX"" Eric Scerri is something of a rara avis. Scerri's philosophical orientation enriches the text by raising a number of thought-provoking issues ... The book under review here is clearly and engaging written and meticulously researched with 42 pages of notes. -- Journal of Chemical Education ""Journal of Chemical Education"" Eric Scerri's new book is a most appropriate work to mark the centenary of the death of Dimitri Mendeleev. The title The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance gives a fair idea of the book's contents, and the author's approach and perspective are captured by his statement that he is concentrating on 'the fundamental scientific and phil -- American Scientist ""American Scientist"" The quality is not merely skin deep, there is a real scholarship inside ... I would have been proud to have written this book rather than just contributing one image. -- Education in Chemistry ""Education in Chemistry"" The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance should be of great interest and value to chemists and particularly to those chemists who teach about what makes up us, our world, and our science. -- Journal of Chemical Education ""Journal of Chemical Education"" This is an outstanding and much anticipated volume, which collects in one place a number of the seminal papers written by one of the pioneers in the philosophy of chemistry ]] As a companion to Scerri's highly acclaimed book The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, this volume succeeds in bringing his important work on the many facets of -- Foundations of Chemistry ""Foundations of Chemistry"" This is undoublty a book that every practising chemist and chemistry educator should read because of it's far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of the periodic law and the challenges it presents to contemporary portrayals of the Periodic Table. -- Newsletter of International History ""Philosophy and Science Teaching Group"""

This is an outstanding and much anticipated volume, which collects in one place a number of the seminal papers written by one of the pioneers in the philosophy of chemistry ]] As a companion to Scerri's highly acclaimed book The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, this volume succeeds in bringing his important work on the many facets of -- Foundations of Chemistry Foundations of Chemistry

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