Periodic table of elements/Bibliography

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• F.P.Venable. (1896) The Development of the Periodic Law. Chemical Publishing Co.: Easton, PA. | Read Online.
  • Detailed history of the periodic system, lacking discussion of the role of modern physics in understanding the periodic system.

• J. Van Spronsen. (1969) The Periodic System of the Chemical Elements, the First One Hundred Years. Elsevier: Amsterdam.
  • Detailed history of the periodic system, one of the few such histories.

• Scerri ER. (2007) The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance. New York: Oxford University Press. | Google Books preview.
  • “The one definitive text on the development of the periodic table by van Spronsen (1969), has been out of print for a considerable time. The present book provides a successor to van Spronsen, but goes further in giving an evaluation of the extent to which modern physics has, or has not, explained the periodic system.”

• E. Mazurs. (1974) The Graphic Representation of the Periodic System During 100 Years. University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa.
  • The many ways the periodic system has been graphically represented, over 700 examples, with attempt at classifying them logically.

• Leigh GJ. (2009) Periodic Tables and IUPAC. Chemistry International 31(1):Jan-Feb. (The News Magazine of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry [IUPAC]) Last accessed page modified 6-Jan-2009 on 15-Mar-2010.
  • IUPAC does not officially approve any particular variant of the periodic table, gives criteria to be met before one submits a variant for consideration of IUPAC approval.

• Atkins PW. (1995) The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements. Basic Books: New York. ISBN 0465072658.
  • "I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars."

• Strathern P.(2001) Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements. Thomas Dune Books: New York. ISBN 9780312262044. | Google Books preview.
  • The history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.