Book Reading Update - Lively History of Chemistry

Finally making some headway on the Lively History of Chemistry Book.  I am a third of the way through Chapter 14.  There are 6 chapters left.

Each chapter is becoming more dense, albeit more condensed and distilled as well, as the progress of research and discovery in chemistry accelerates.  It seems after finally ridding themselves of relying on the phlogiston theory, a drain has been unplugged.

I am little bit disappointed that the account is a but disjointed with seemingly missing pieces in between.  I can only guess that there is some order and organization coursing through the authors' minds that I am not aware of.

Mendeleev has organized the periodic table and they have advanced well enough in organic chemistry to ponder the concept of chiral molecules without having any physical evidence of atoms!  It is amazing to say the least.  One just has to believe on what a leap of faith it took to develop these ideas of chemistry, most of which we now have hard physical evidence for.

Back to reading.