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Chemical Pedagogy and the Periodic System (2019)

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Natural laws Theory of the elements Atomic weights Periodic system of the elements; periodic table Teaching; pedagogy Chemistry 20th century, early 19th century Meyer, Julius Lothar Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich

It is fairly well-known that both Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) and Lothar Meyer (1830–1895) were in the process of writing textbooks when they realized that the connection between the atomic weights of elements and their properties could lead to a classification system that encompassed all of the elements. However, little has been written about the role of chemical pedagogy in the development of the periodic table, the graphical representation of the periodic law discovered by Mendeleev and Meyer. In this article I argue that the development of the graphical representation of the periodic law was driven by chemical pedagogy from its discovery. Through an exploration of a variety of pedagogical venues and tools, including textbooks and lecture halls, interactive as well as three-dimensional periodic tables, and periodic table wallcharts, I demonstrate that within a quarter-century of its discovery in 1869, the periodic law had been adapted and incorporated into pedagogical practice. These activities began long before the 1920s and 1930s, a period that has been described as the point at which the periodic table became largely regarded a teaching tool rather than a representation of a law of nature, and continue to this day.

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Authors & Contributors
Boeck, Gisela
Pulkkinen, Karoliina
Rocke, Alan J.
Kaji, Masanori
Girolami, Gregory S.
Campbell, Christopher
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Foundations of Chemistry
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
The Chemical Educator
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Teubner
Oxford University Press
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Periodic system of the elements; periodic table
Chemistry
Chemical elements
Atomic weights
Theory of the elements
Tables; catalogs; lists
People
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
Meyer, Julius Lothar
Mills, Edmund James
Meyer, Julius Lothar von
Vincent, Joseph Herbert
Seubert, Karl
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Russia
Germany
United States
France
Great Britain
Institutions
UNESCO
United Nations
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