Reviews for The Mystery of the Periodic Table

The average rating for The Mystery of the Periodic Table based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-18 00:00:00 Vernon Nikunen Now you have to understand Chemistry was like my least favorite subject ever in school. Not big on Science of any sort, Chemistry was the worst of all. This week I was cleaning out our back room and going through old homeschooling books and papers. When I found The Mystery of the Periodic Table I couldn't remember ever having read it. The back book cover reads, 'written for middle school age, with later chapters designed for ages 12-13 and up.' Yours truly is the 'and up.' Benjamin D. Walker has taken the Periodic Table as we know it today and proposed the question, "How did this come about?" Good question! Kind of like the Bible, it wasn't just dropped down from the sky ready made. It took centuries and the combined efforts of many people from all over the world working together - and even sometimes against each other - to produce the finished result. This book is part science, part history, which made it more palatable for someone like me. I still can't say I got all of it, but I learned quite a bit and enjoyed the journey ... not bad for someone who never liked Chemistry. I'm wrapping this copy up for my chemical engineer daughter for Christmas. She gets her brains from her father.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-25 00:00:00 Guangchen Fu Such an awesome little book about chemists from the ancients until the present and how the discovery of chemistry and elements became the organized Table of Elements. Easy to read and understand. Could even be used in high school as an introduction to chemistry.