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Early Responses to the Periodic System (Hardcover)
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The reception of the periodic system of elements has received
little attention. Many historians have studied Mendeleev's
discovery of the periodic system, but few have analyzed how the
scientific community perceived and employed it. American historian
of science Stephen G. Brush concluded that the periodic law had
been generally accepted in the United States and Britain and
suggested the need to extend this study to other countries. Early
Responses to the Periodic System is the first collection of
comparative studies on the reception, response, and appropriation
of the periodic system of elements. This book examines the history
of pedagogy and popularization in scientific communities,
educational sectors, and popular culture from the 1870s to the
1920s. Fifteen historians of science explore eleven countries (and
one region) central to chemical research, including Russia,
Germany, the Czech lands, and Japan, one of the few nation-states
outside the Western world to participate in nineteenth century
scientific research. The collection, organized by nation-state,
explores how local actors regarded the new discovery as law,
classification, or theoretical interpretation. The section on
France discusses how a small but significant group of authors,
including Adolphe Wurtz and Edouard Grimaux, introduced the
periodic system as support for the atomic theory-not as the final
solution to the longstanding quest for a natural classification of
elements. The chapter on Germany discusses the role of Lothar
Meyer, also awarded The Davy Medal for the discovery of the
periodic system. Meyer's role was considered less important, and he
was forgotten in his home country, Germany where educational
tradition was well established, and the periodic system was not
used as a novel didactic approach. In addition to discussing the
appropriation of the periodic system, the collection examines
metaphysical reflections of nature based on the periodic system
outside of chemistry and considers how far we can push the
categories of "response " and "reception. "
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