LibGuides: Periodic Table: Books

Books on the History of the Periodic Table

The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance
By Eric R. Scerri
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
The periodic system of chemical elements. A history of the first hundred years.
By J. W. van Spronsen. 1969.
Graphic representations of the periodic system during one hundred years
By Edward G. Mazurs, 1974.
The periodic table: into the 21st century
Edited by Dennis H. Rouvray and R. Bruce King, 2004.
Selected papers on the periodic table
By Eric Scerri, 2009
Classical scientific papers: chemistry, second series. Papers on the nature and arrangement of the chemical elements.
Arranged and introduced by David M. Knight, 1970.

Contemporary Books on the Periodic Table and Law

The nature of the chemical bond, and the structure of molecules and crystals; an introduction to modern structural chemistry
By Linus Pauling, 1940
Mendeleev on the periodic law : selected writings, 1869-1905
By Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich.
Selected and edited by William B. Jensen, 2005
On the discovery of the periodic law, and on relations among the atomic weights
By John A.R. Newlands, 1884.
Systematic inorganic chemistry from the standpoint of the periodic law
By R.M. Caven and G.D. Lander, 1922.
The development of the periodic law
By F. P. Venable, 1896
Geometrical illustrations of Newlands' and Mendelejeff's periodic law of the atomic weights of the chemical elements.
By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, 1889.
Scritti intorno alla teoria molecolare ed atomica ed alla notazione chimica
By Cannizzaro, Stanislao, 1896.
Die Modernen Theorien der Chemie/ Modern Theories of Chemistry
By Lothar Meyer. We hold a few editions of this title.
Lothar Meyer, independently of Mendeleyev, also developed a classification of the elements relating to atomic weight.

Contemporary Information

Textbooks are a great place to view information that was widely held at any given time. The Othmer Library has an extensive collection of chemistry textbooks, many with periodic tables in them. This is a great place to view the periodic table that students would have learned in the years around publication. Search the Subject for "Textbooks," the catalog will show a break down of sub categories.