60 Citations
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements
- PhysicsSynthese
- 2021
The exploration of chemical periodicity over the past 250 years led to the development of the Periodic System of Elements and demonstrates the value of vague ideas that ignored early scientific…
The discovery of the periodic table of the chemical elements: A short journey from the beginnings until today
- essentials
- 2022
In praise of triads
- EducationFoundations of Chemistry
- 2022
The article begins with a response to a recent contribution by Jensen, in which he has criticized several aspects of the use of triads of elements, including Döbereiner’s original introduction of the…
Various forms of the periodic table including the left-step table, the regularization of atomic number triads and first-member anomalies
- MathematicsChemTexts
- 2021
The relative virtues of 8- and 18-column periodic tables are discussed, followed by a brief mention of a 32-column table. Next, the left-step periodic table, as first introduced by Janet, is…
The Trouble with Triads
- MathematicsPerspectives on the History of Chemistry
- 2021
Both Dobereiner’s original atomic weight triads and the recent atomic number triads are critically evaluated and found to be neither necessary nor sufficient to determine the degree of relatedness…
Josiah Parsons Cooke, the Natural Philosophy of Sir John F. W. Herschel and the Rational Chemistry of the Elements
- ChemistryPerspectives on the History of Chemistry
- 2021
The natural philosophy of chemistry grew slowly until the articulation of the axiom of chemical atoms by John Dalton in the early nineteenth century. Sir John F. W. Herschel was one of the leading…
Periodicity in Britain: The Periodic Tables of Odling and Newlands
- HistoryPerspectives on the History of Chemistry
- 2021
Two British chemists, William Odling and John A. R. Newlands, published separate periodic arrangements of the elements in the middle 1860s, several years before Mendeleev’s first periodic table. This…
Mendeleyev revisited
- PhysicsFoundations of Chemistry
- 2021
Despite the periodic table having been discovered by chemists half a century before the discovery of electronic structure, modern designs are invariably based on physicists’ definition of periods.…