- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- Measure for Measure
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
Kean has told the story of Dmitri Mendeleev, the Russian scientist credited with inventing the periodic table. Mendeleev had both brilliant insight into the way that the known elements worked and a visionary skill at predicting the properties of elements yet to be discovered. While this made him a genius with an important place in scientific history, it could be annoying for fellow scientists like Paul Emile François Lecoq de Boisbaudran, who actually discovered an element Mendeleev predicted to exist (“eka-aluminum”). In this passage, Kean ponders whether it is the theories of visionaries like Mendeleev or the proofs of people…