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A fact from History of the periodic table appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 April 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the history of the periodic table records at least two pre-Mendeleevian attempts to organize the elements?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/April.

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Good illustrations for history of the discoveries

For see the table with the main discovery periods:

Before 1800 	1800-1849 	1850-1899 	1900-1949 	1950-1999

http://old.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/index.html

we may be use as a JPG or Wiki (if put into small).

Time of Discovery

Before 1800

1800-1849

1850-1899

1900-1949

1950-1999

1

18

1
H
1.0079

2

13

14

15

16

17

2
He
4.0026

3
Li
6.941

4
Be
9.0122

5
B
10.811

6
C
12.011

7
N
14.007

8
O
15.999

9
F
18.998

10
Ne
20.180

11
Na
22.990

12
Mg
24.305

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13
Al
26.982

14
Si
28.086

15
P
30.974

16
S
32.065

17
Cl
35.453

18
Ar
39.948

19
K
39.098

20
Ca
40.078

21
Sc
44.956

22
Ti
47.867

23
V
50.942

24
Cr
51.996

25
Mn
54.938

26
Fe
55.845

27
Co
58.933

28
Ni
58.693

29
Cu
63.546

30
Zn
65.38

31
Ga
69.723

32
Ge
72.64

33
As
74.922

34
Se
78.96

35
Br
79.904

36
Kr
83.798

37
Rb
85.468

38
Sr
87.62

39
Y
88.906

40
Zr
91.224

41
Nb
92.906

42
Mo
95.96

43
Tc
-

44
Ru
101.07

45
Rh
102.91

46
Pd
106.42

47
Ag
107.87

48
Cd
112.41

49
In
114.82

50
Sn
118.71

51
Sb
121.76

52
Te
127.60

53
I
126.90

54
Xe
131.29

55
Cs
132.91

56
Ba
137.33

57-71

72
Hf
178.49

73
Ta
180.95

74
W
183.84

75
Re
186.21

76
Os
190.23

77
Ir
192.22

78
Pt
195.08

79
Au
196.97

80
Hg
200.59

81
Tl
204.38

82
Pb
207.2

83
Bi
208.98

84
Po
-

85
At
-

86
Rn
-

87
Fr
-

88
Ra
-

89-103

104
Rf
-

105
Db
-

106
Sg
-

107
Bh
-

108
Hs
-

109
Mt
-

110
Ds
-

111
Rg
-

La 150.36

57
La
138.91

58
Ce
140.12

59
Pr
140.91

60
Nd
144.24

61
Pm
-

62
Sm
150.36

63
Eu
151.96

64
Gd
157.25

65
Tb
158.93

66
Dy
162.50

67
Ho
164.93

68
Er
167.26

69
Tm
168.93

70
Yb
173.05

71
Lu
174.97

La 150.36

89
Ac
-

90
Th
232.04

91
Pa
231.04

92
U
238.03

93
Np
-

94
Pu
-

95
Am
-

96
Cm
-

97
Bk
-

98
Cf
-

99
Es
-

100
Fm
-

101
Md
-

102
No
-

103
Lr
-

External links

Links

[1] -- piece from The New Yorker that may be useful for some earlier stories.
[2]
[3]
[4]
the book doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75813-8 may also prove useful (I have it on my computer)
[5]
[6] the big 1958 Soviet source (in Russian)
[7] -- a very interesting source about Mendeleev (in Russian)
[8] -- I got myself a copy of this book. It should be a very interesting and very useful read
doi:10.1057/9780230338029_4 -- very interesting for a future discussion about the normally registered priority of Mendeleev over Meyer
[9] -- brief explanation of the end of the periodic table
[10] -- has a photo of Mendeleev in 1869

From ComplexRational

doi:10.1126/science.aau7628 – an interesting read about the history of rare earth elements in the periodic table.
doi:10.1007/s40828-019-0092-5 – another Mendeleev story.

1960s

It would be nice to see the almost perfect rectangular version that was standard in American schools in the 1950s and early 1960s. Kdammers (talk) 00:35, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]