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I've also borrowed Disappearing Spoon and looking forward to checking it out.
Amazon Prime had a great 3-or4-part series a year or two ago on the discoveries that led to the periodic table - Mystery of Matter or similar IIRC - about how scientists (without knowledge of atomic structure) started to recognize patterns, formulate theories and fill in unexplained gaps, all before the discovery of the neutron and modern distinctions between atomic number and atomic weight were known. Fascinating stuff...
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