Table of Contents

Foreword
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
Part I: Discovery and Early Work on the Periodic System
2. The Early Response of Mendeleev's Periodic System in Russia
Masanori Kaji, Nathan Brooks
3. The Periodic System and its Influence on Research and Education in Germany between 1870 and 1910
Gisela Boeck
Part II: Early Response at the Center of Chemical Research
4. British Reception of Periodicity
Gordon Woods
5. Mendeleev's Periodic Classification and Law in French Chemistry Textbooks
Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Antonio García Belmar
Part III: Response in the Central European Periphery
6. Nationalism and the Process of Reception of Reception and Appropriation of the Periodic System in Europe and the Czech Lands
So?a %Strbá?ová
Part IV: Response in the Northern European Periphery (Scandinavian Countries)
7. When a daring chemistry meets a boring chemistry: The Reception of Mendeleev's Periodic System in Sweden
Anders Lundgren
8. Reception and Early Use of the Periodic System: The Case of Denmark
Helge Kragh
9. Ignored, Disregarded, Discarded? On the Introduction of the Periodic System in Norwegian Periodicals and Textbooks, c. 1870-1930s
Annette Lykknes
Part V: Response in the Southern European Periphery
10. Chemical Classifications, Textbooks, and the Periodic System in Nineteenth-Century Spain
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez, Rosa Muñoz-Bello
11. Echoes from the Reception of Periodic Classification in Portugal
Isabel Malaquias
12. Popular Science, Textbooks, and Scientists: The Periodic Law in Italy
Marco Ciardi, Marco Taddia
Part VI: Response Beyond Europe
13. Chemical Classification and the Response to the Periodic Law of Elements in Japan in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Masanori Kaji

About the Author

Masanori Kaji is a Professor of the History of Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Helge Kragh is a Professor of the History of Science at Aarhus University.

Gábor Palló is a Senior Consultant at the Visual Learning Lab at Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Reviews

"Anyone who teaches about the history of science or uses historical examples in science instruction should find this a very useful book. Recommended." --Choice
"Early Responses to the Periodic System is recommended for teachers of chemistry, history of science and chemistry, and their more advanced students." --Journal of Chemical Education
"An important addition to the literature on the history of chemistry. It gives a sound answer to the question it posed itself: How did the Periodic system come to be accepted by chemists throughout the world?" -- Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group