Tag: science

  • Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834 – 1907)

    A Note: The amount of mental anguish this silly little Russian has given me is… embarrassing. Because as many have noted, to follow Mendeleev is to also follow the flow of Russian socioeconomics and politics in the 18th to early 19th century. I certainly ascribe to Michael Gordin’s interpretation of talking about Mendeleev as not…