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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.

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Periodic Tables from the year 1866:

1866   Spectroscope Revelations
1866   Annual Report on the Progress of Chemistry and Related Areas of Other Sciences 1866


Year:  1866 PT id = 545, Type = formulation

Spectroscope Revelations

From Scientific American in 1866, an article by Henry Draper concerning "The Spectroscope and Its Revelations".

At the time there was no understanding how the spectra were generated but it was recognised that every element produced a unique spectrum. Over 35,000 stars are catalogued/identified by their "HD" [Henry Draper] numbers:

Thanks to Eric Scerri for the tip!
See the website EricScerri.com and Eric's Twitter Feed.

Also, thanks to Prof. Emeritus Robert J. Lancashire of The University of the West Indies for corrections & additional information.

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Year:  1866 PT id = 1356, Type = formulation review element

Annual Report on the Progress of Chemistry and Related Areas of Other Sciences 1866

Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Chemie und verwandter Theile anderer Wissenschaften. (Annual Report on the progress of chemistry and related areas of other sciences.) HathiTrust Index scanned reports 1847-1910.

Mark Leach writes:

"Every year the annual report started with a list of the known chemical elements and their atomic weights, however, to the modern eye there were many systematic errors. For example, oxygen (Sauerstoff) is given as having a weight of 8 which would have caused – due to the importance of oxides – other atomic weights to be out by a factor of 2 or 3. Once a list of correct atomic weights was known, it would be possible to construct a periodic table of the elements.

"In 1858 the Cannazzario letter gave more correct list of atomic weights and corrected the numerous stoichiometric errors that plagued chemistry at the time. Over the years from 1858 to 1873 the entries in the annual report gradually adopted the Cannazzario logic."

Didym D = 48 was actually a mixture of rare earth elements. The missing elements had yet to be discovered.

Thanks to René and Mario Rodriguez for the tip!

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