Historical data visualization · 1869
Опыт системы элементов, основанной на их атомном весе и химическом сходстве
Excerpt · Russian Chemical Society · 6 March 1869
Mendeleev’s system of the elements by atomic weight, sent to chemists in February 1869, with the conclusions of his paper.
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- 27 September 2026
- Language
- Russian
- Rights holder
- Dmitri Mendeleev, 1869
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Edition
Text: the conclusions, closing paragraph and footnote of “Соотношение свойств с атомным весом элементов” (Журнал Русского Химического Общества, vol. I, 1869, pp. 60-77), as reprinted in Д. И. Менделеев, Периодический закон, edited by B. N. Menshutkin (Классики естествознания 15, Moscow and Leningrad, Государственное издательство, 1926), pp. 19-20, in the reformed spelling of that edition. Transcribed from the OCR of the Internet Archive scan and corrected against the page images: element symbols, which the OCR misread, and letters damaged in the print, read as величине, различию, видно, сравнительному and эта, the footnote date read as 5 Апреля, and the full stop after “никакого внимания”. The readings “прешествовавших” and “вопросы химии, В названном” are kept as printed in 1926 (the 1934 edition of the same papers reads “предшествовавших” and “химии. В”). The dates are those of the 1926 edition, in the Julian calendar then used in Russia. Words hyphenated at line ends are joined (“взаимно-/действие” as взаимнодействие); the letter-spaced words of emphasis stay letter-spaced; the footnote marked 1) is numbered by the poster. The headings keep the capitals of the 1926 edition in the text, and are set in lower case in the title of the poster. Image: File:1869-periodic-table.jpg on Wikimedia Commons (1067 x 1312 px, a scan of a reproduction of the sheet, uploaded in 2007 without a source), in grayscale with its paper and show-through whitened for the poster (levels 15 to 215).
Rights
Dmitri Mendeleev died in 1907; the sheet and the paper were published in 1869, and the edition used in 1926, before 1931: public domain in the United States. Mendeleev died before 1956, as did the editor of the 1926 edition, B. N. Menshutkin (died 1938), whose own text is not reproduced: public domain in France.
Wikimedia Commons marks the image PD-old-100-1923 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1869-periodic-table.jpg); the Internet Archive marks the 1926 edition with the Public Domain Mark.
