Early Responses to the Periodic System by Kaji Masanori; Kragh Helge; Pallo Gabor

Author:Kaji, Masanori; Kragh, Helge; Pallo, Gabor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2014-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1.This paragraph is based on my earlier studies of nineteenth-century chemistry in Swedish. In the references, the abridgment Öfversigt KVA will stand for Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar [Survey of the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Science] (Stockholm); KVA Bihang for Bihang till Kongl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar [Supplement to the Transactions of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science] (Stockholm).

2.Michael D. Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (New York: Basic Books, 2004), xviii.

3.J. O. Rosenberg, Lärobok i oorganisk kemi [Textbook in Inorganic Chemistry] (Stockholm: Norstedts, 1888), 126; 2:a uppl. [2nd ed.], 1892, 128; 3:e uppl. [3d ed.], 1903), 139. The only difference among the editions is that in the third edition the noble gases have been added. Here and thereafter all the translation from Swedish is mine (Anders Lungren).

4.Per Teodor Cleve, Kemiskt hand-lexikon [Chemical Dictionary] (Stockholm: Seligmann, 1883), 146–148; idem, Lärobok i kemiens grunder, 3. omarbetade uppl. [Textbook in the Foundation of Chemistry, 3d Revised Edition] (Stockholm: Geber, 1886), 178–180.

5.Hjalmar Berwald, Lärobok i oorgansik kemi för läroverken [Textbook in Inorganic Chemistry for Secondary Schools] (Stockholm: Norstedts, 1886), 134–136.

6.David Kempe, Lärobok i oorganisk kemi för allmänna läroverken [Textbook in Inorganic Chemistry for Secondary Schools] (Stockholm: Norstedts, 1896), 234–236. The reading is the same in the second and third editions (1900 and 1903).

7.Wilhelm Abenius, Elementär lärobok i oorganisk kemi [Elementary Textbook in Inorganic Chemistry] (Stockholm: Bille, 1903), 32–34 (italics in original).

8.N. J. Berlin, Elementar-lärobok i oorganisk kemi, 3:e upplagan bearbetad af C. W. Blomstrand [Elementary Textbook in Inorganic Chemistry, 3d ed. revised by C. W. Blomstrand] (Lund: Gleerup, 1870), 597–602; C. W. Blomstrand, Naturens grundämnen i deras inbördes ställning till hvarandra [The Elements of Nature and their Mutual Relationship] (Stockholm: Klemmings, 1875). I have here mostly used the last item.

9.Quoted from J. W. Spronsen, The Periodic System of Chemical Elements: A History of the First Hundred Years (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1969), 343. I have not found any such claims on behalf of Blomstrand, who in Kort lärobok i oorganisk kemi. 4:e uppl. [Short Textbook in Inorganic Chemistry. 4th edition] (Lund: Gleerup, 1897), 253 called Mendeleev the founder of the periodic system.

10.Blomstrand, Naturens grundämnen (note 8), 21–32.

11.Blomstrand, Naturens grundämnen (note 8), 31. Such groups could be the Fe-group (Fe, Mn, Cr, Ni, Co), the W-group (W, Mo), the Ta-group (Ta, Nb), and so on.

12.Cleve, Lärobok i oorganisk kemi [Textbook in Inorganic Chemistry] (Stockholm: Seeligmann, 1872), 32.

13.Cleve, Lärobok (note 12), 35.

14.“Anteckningar från prof. C.W. Blomstrands offentliga föreläsningar öfver oorganiska kemin H.T. 1884 af S[imon] Bengtsson” [Notes from prof. C. W. Blomstrand’s public lectures in inorganic chemistry during autumn 1884, by S[imon] Bengtsson], 10, 26 (my pagination), Ms Blomstrand, Lund University Library. These lecture notes contain material also from the period after 1884.

15.This paragraph draws on my unpublished Ms “Looking at the atomic theory from below: Atomism in chemical textbooks during the 19th century.”

16.A. Lundgren, “Carl Gustaf Mosander,” Svenskt biografiskt lexikon 25 (Stockholm: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, 1987), 739–742.

17.Adolf Nordenskiöld to Carl Wilhelm Blomstrand, 10.2.1897, Ms Archives of The Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm.

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