I would have to say I think it is extremely helpful to your education to go back even further than Ms Hoke.
I found some of what is called a "Classical Education" was very helpful to me.
By the time I read Ms Hoke she was filling in gaps and making use of historical stories I vaguely remembered from school.
I highly recommend Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest For the Elements as a very good introduction to the subject.
“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.”
― Johann Joachim Becher 1667
I found some of what is called a "Classical Education" was very helpful to me.
By the time I read Ms Hoke she was filling in gaps and making use of historical stories I vaguely remembered from school.
I highly recommend Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest For the Elements as a very good introduction to the subject.
“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.”
― Johann Joachim Becher 1667
