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A collection of comparative studies on the reception, response, and appropriation of the periodic system of elements in eleven countries. Masanori Kaji is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He wrote Mendeleev: The Discoverer of the Periodic Law of Elements (Toyo Shoten, 2007) and Mendeleev’s Discovery of the Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements–The Scientific and Socieal Context of His Discovery (Hokkaido University Press, 1997). Foreword; List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction; Part I: Discovery and Early Work on the Periodic System; 2. The Early Response of Mendeleev’s Periodic System in Russia; Masanori Kaji, Nathan Brooks; 3. The Periodic System and its Influence on Research and Education in Germany between 1870 and 1910; Gisela Boeck; Part II: Early Response at the Center of Chemical Research; 4. British Reception of Periodicity; Gordon Woods; 5. Mendeleev’s Periodic Classification and Law in French Chemistry Textbooks; Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Antonio Garcia Belmar; Part III: Response in the Central European Periphery; 6. Nationalism and the Process of Reception of Reception and Appropriation of the Periodic System in Europe and the Czech Lands; So?a Strba?ova; Part IV: Response in the Northern European Periphery (Scandinavian Countries); 7. When a daring chemistry meets a boring chemistry: The Reception of Mendeleev’s Periodic System in Sweden; Anders Lundgren; 8. Reception and Early Use of the Periodic System: The Case of Denmark; Helge Kragh; 9. Ignored, Disregarded, Discarded? On the Introduction of the Periodic System in Norwegian Periodicals and Textbooks, c. 1870-1930s; Annette Lykknes; Part V: Response in the Southern European Periphery; 10. Chemical Classifications, Textbooks, and the Periodic System in Nineteenth-Century Spain; Jose Ramon Bertomeu-Sanchez, Rosa Munoz-Bello; 11. Echoes from the Reception of Periodic Classification in Portugal; Isabel Malaquias; 12. Popular Science, Textbooks, and Scientists: The Periodic Law in Italy; Marco Ciardi, Marco Taddia; Part VI: Response Beyond Europe; 13. Chemical Classification and the Response to the Periodic Law of Elements in Japan in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Masanori Kaji
