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Vis Tellurique of Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (2021)

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The vis tellurique, the arrangement of elements and radicals that the French geologist Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois presented in 1862, is described. Reactions to the arrangement by contemporaries, by later chemists of the nineteenth century, and by selected historians are examined. It is argued that Béguyer de Chancourtois discovered the law of chemical periodicity, albeit in a form too flawed and indefinite to appeal to contemporary chemists.

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Authors & Contributors
Girolami, Gregory S.
Giunta, Carmen J.
Mainz, Vera V.
Scerri, Eric R.
Boeck, Gisela
Robinson, Ann E.
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Oxford University Press
World Scientific Publishing Co.
Springer Nature
Concepts
Chemical elements
Periodic system of the elements; periodic table
Chemistry
Classification
Visual representation; visual communication
Philosophy of science
People
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
Meyer, Julius Lothar
Boyle, Robert
Dalton, John
Döbereiner, Johann Wolfgang
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
Modern
Places
Great Britain
Germany
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Institutions
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
UNESCO
American Chemical Society
United Nations
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