I've always thought it was quite unfortunate that some really arcane presentation of the periodic table wasn't used in H. Beam Piper's novella "Omnilingual": h

I've always thought it was quite unfortunate that some really arcane presentation of the periodic table wasn't used in H. Beam Piper's novella "Omnilingual": https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19445/pg19445-images.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19445/pg19445-images.ht...