Well I ready feel for Mendel the monk, school teacher who was told he was a fool by people who ought to know because they were in fact fools themselves.
The article on Medeleyev as the spell it was not a terrible as in the dumb text books we have here in New South Wales that imply he was a vodka swilling Russian, but it wasn't that clever itself. I think it is enormously interesting that he was a chemistry teacher writing a text book and this lead to the creation of something that happens to be ideal for teaching. I am dismayed however that his table is 90 degrees from the current one. The current one printed in the book is about the worst periodic table I have ever seen, but at least only has poorly placed elements and not incorrectly placed elements.
James Clerk Maxwell was also an interesting read. I don't think the authors have got the news that the lines of force of Faraday is really junk folk science and importantly in this context it was Maxwell who pointed it out, and rather crucially it was Faraday who concluded it was junk science. No worries it is easy to teach.
Max Planck, getting into post 1900 here, was an okay read until they butchered Quantum Mechanics. Honestly, had no one in the entire production process of this book twigged?
Are we to swallow that Energy is made of a discreet number of packets of angular momentum. You would I would think read Panck's Nobel prize speech to get an accurate handle on what he did. Well, what ever.
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