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Early rEsponsEs to thE pEriodic systEmEdited by Masanori Kaji, Helge Kragh, and Gábor Palló

Early Responses to the Periodic System is the first collection of

comparative studies on the reception, response, and appropriation

of the periodic system of elements. This book examines the

history of pedagogy and popularization in scientific communities,

educational sectors, and popular culture from the 1870s to the

1920s. Fifteen historians of science explore eleven countries

(and one region) central to chemical research, including Russia,

Germany, the Czech lands, and Japan, one of the few nation-states

outside the Western world to participate in nineteenth century

scientific research.

The collection, organized by nation-state, explores how local actors

regarded the new discovery as law, classification, or theoretical

interpretation. The section on France discusses how a small but

significant group of authors, including Adolphe Wurtz and Édouard

Grimaux, introduced the periodic system as support for the

atomic theory--not as the final solution to the longstanding quest

for a natural classification of elements. The chapter on Germany

discusses the role of Lothar Meyer, also awarded The Davy Medal

for the discovery of the periodic system. Meyer’s role was considered less important, and he was forgotten

in his home country, where educational tradition was well established, and the periodic system was not used

as a novel didactic approach. In addition to discussing the appropriation of the periodic system, the collection

examines metaphysical reflections of nature based on the periodic system outside of chemistry and considers

how far we can push the categories of “response” and “reception.”

Special Features:

• Extended treatment of the history of science and philosophical debate of the impact of scientific discoveries.

• A compilation of studies by notable historians of science.

• A thorough, geographically diverse historical analysis of the period spanning the 1870s to the 1920s.

• The first major comparative analysis of the diffusion of Mendeleev’s discovery in different nation-states.

About the editors

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.

gabor Palló is a Senior Consultant at the Visual Learning Lab at Budapest University of Technology and

Economics.

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Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of TablesForewordAcknowledgementsList of Contributors

1. Introduction

Part I: Discovery and Early Work on the Periodic System2. The Early Response to Mendeleev’s Periodic System in RussiaMasanori Kaji and Nathan Brooks3. The Periodic System and Its Influence on Research and Education in Germany between 1870 and 1910Gisela Boeck

Part II: Early Response at the Center of Chemical Research4. British Reception of PeriodicityGordon Woods5. Mendeleev’s Periodic Classification and Law in French Chemistry TextbooksBernadette Bensaude Vincent and Antonio García Belmar

Part III: Response in the Central European Periphery6. Nationalism and the Process of Reception of Reception and Appropriation of the Periodic System in Europe and the Czech LandsSoňa Štrbáňová

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 SwedenAnders Lundgren8. Reception and Early Use of the Periodic System: The Case of DenmarkHelge Kragh9. Ignored, Disregarded, Discarded? On the Introduction of the Periodic System in Norwegian Periodicals and Textbooks, c. 1870-1930sAnnette Lykknes

Part V: Response in the Southern European Periphery10. Chemical Classifications, Textbooks, and the Periodic System in Nineteenth-Century SpainJosé Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Rosa Muñoz-Bello11. Echoes from the Reception of Periodic Classification in PortugalIsabel Malaquias12. Popular Science, Textbooks, and Scientists: The Periodic Law in ItalyMarco Ciardi and Marco Taddia

Part VI: Response Beyond Europe13. Chemical Classification and the Response to the Periodic Law of Elements in Japan in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesMasanori Kaji

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March 2015 | 344 pages | 9780190200077 | $35.00/$24.50

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• The first major comparative analysis of the diffusion of Mendeleev’s discovery in different nation-states.

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