Description An article illustrating the problems rising when codified history is not critically re-examined. In 1898 Crookes announced his discovery of a new rare earth element, monium, whose name he changed to victorium in 1900. Although this new “element” was found to be a mixture, it remained in the LC Classification Schedules until 1973. (G. B. KAUFFMAN)
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William Crookes and the quest for the absolute vacuum in the 1870s
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Picturing the Supernatural: Spirit Photography, Radiant Matter, and the Spectacular Science of Sir William Crookes
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(1985)
Crookes and radioactivity: From inorganic evolution to atomic transmutation
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Was Sir William Crookes Epistemically Virtuous?
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Brock, William H.;
(2005)
The Radiometer and Its Lessons: William Carpenter versus William Crookes
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William Crookes: Spiritualism and science
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William Crookes (1832--1919) and the Commercialization of Science
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