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I hope once it's restored they put it on a wall somewhere beside a modern table so people can see the progress that's been made since.

jcranmer 8y ago
The chart is essentially the same as in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_table_by_Mendeleev,_1871.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_table_by_Me..., except that there are some more elements filled in. Specifically, gallium was added, and the lanthanides (particularly cerium/lanthanum/didymium) seem really confused. (Yes, this is before chemists realized that didymium wasn't an element but a mixture of rare earths. Rare earths confused the hell out of chemists at the time, because they are so chemically similar that it's difficult to extract them from another, and they don't sit well in the standard grouping because f orbitals don't play meaningful roles in bonding--hence the chemical similarity).
mxfh 8y ago
There are some slides explaining the restoration process: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/school-of-chemistry/events-and-seminars/NBTM%202.%20Alan%20Aitken.pdf https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/school-of-chemistry/event... If you want to print a copy, I would recommend fetching the high resolution scan of a later edition stored in Library of Kyoto University: https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/page/0653.html https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/page/0653.htm... https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/large/A207.jpg https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/large/A207.jp...
- rtrsqrrl 8y ago
  Here is another High Res Version of the St. Andrews Chart. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/1656624/remarkable-discovery-in-st-andrews-of-what-could-be-worlds-oldest-periodic-table/ https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/1656624/r... https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/KMil_PTable-1.jpg https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2...

jcranmer 8y ago

The chart is essentially the same as in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_table_by_Mendeleev,_1871.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_table_by_Me..., except that there are some more elements filled in. Specifically, gallium was added, and the lanthanides (particularly cerium/lanthanum/didymium) seem really confused. (Yes, this is before chemists realized that didymium wasn't an element but a mixture of rare earths. Rare earths confused the hell out of chemists at the time, because they are so chemically similar that it's difficult to extract them from another, and they don't sit well in the standard grouping because f orbitals don't play meaningful roles in bonding--hence the chemical similarity).

mxfh 8y ago

There are some slides explaining the restoration process: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/school-of-chemistry/events-and-seminars/NBTM%202.%20Alan%20Aitken.pdf https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/school-of-chemistry/event... If you want to print a copy, I would recommend fetching the high resolution scan of a later edition stored in Library of Kyoto University: https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/page/0653.html https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/page/0653.htm... https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/large/A207.jpg https://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/kakezu/large/A207.jp...

rtrsqrrl 8y ago
Here is another High Res Version of the St. Andrews Chart. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/1656624/remarkable-discovery-in-st-andrews-of-what-could-be-worlds-oldest-periodic-table/ https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/1656624/r... https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/KMil_PTable-1.jpg https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2...