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| What is the Periodic Table Showing? | Periodicity |
The INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables
There are thousands of periodic tables in web space, but this is the only comprehensive database of periodic tables & periodic system formulations. If you know of an interesting periodic table that is missing, please contact the database curator: Mark R. Leach Ph.D. The database holds information on periodic tables, the discovery of the elements, the elucidation of atomic weights and the discovery of atomic structure (and much, much more).
| Year: 1957 | PT id = 1410, Type = review |
Mazurs: Types of graphic representation of the periodic system of chemical elements
Types of graphic representation of the periodic system of chemical elements is a 1957 self-published book by Edward G. Mazurs. The book was updated, and re-titled, to the much better known Graphic Representations of the Periodic System During One Hundred Years (University of Alabama Press) in 1974.
Edward G. Mazurs (1894–1983) was a chemist who wrote a history of the periodic system of the chemical elements which is still considered a "classic book on the history of the periodic table". Originally self-published as Types of graphic representation of the periodic system of chemical elements (1957), it was reviewed by the ACS in 1958 as "the most complete survey of the range of human imagination in representing graphically the Mendeleev periodic law."
Mark Leach writes:
Unfortunately, Mazurs re-draws all of the periodic tables in both his books; he adds elements that were not known at the time of formulation and sometimes takes great liberties by rotating images by 90° (without comment), including Mendeleev's formulations of 1869. His classification system is confusing. As Wikipedia says: "Mazurs's books are difficult to use because the references are divided into 146 corresponding sections, and the index refers to the types and not to pages. Nevertheless, his references are the most comprehensive and accurate ever compiled for the period covered. He cited authors writing in at least 24 languages and from fifty countries."

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