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<p class=""wp-caption-text">** ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY APRIL 20 ** Chemical Heritage Foundation librarian Christopher Stanwood wears white gloves as he handles the newly-acquired "Osnovy Khimii (Principles of Chemistry) by Dmitri Mendeleev, who developed the periodic table of the elements, at the foundation's rare book library in Philadelphia Wednesday April 7, 2004. The foundation has acquired the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library using a $10 miilion donation from Gordon and Betty Moore. The 6,000 books are from all six centuries since the development of the printing press, covering the earliest days of alchemy, mining, metallurgy, distilling, winemaking, the chemical industry and medicine. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)</p>"
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<p><span>Rumor or legend has it that Dmitrii Medeleev discovered the periodic table in one day, but in fact this idea has been on his mind for some time. As life would have, the path of Dmitrii Mendeleev to prominence was not a straight trajectory. Dmitrii Medeleev was a professor in St Petersburg University, and was about to teach inorganic chemistry, when he found out that he was not satisfied with the textbooks of inorganic chemistry at the time. Previously, when he was out of money and needed a job, thus he wrote an organic chemistry textbook, for which he received an award. Thus, writing textbooks was not unfamiliar to him,<span class=""Apple-converted-space"> </span>but what was different this time is that in embarking on this journey to write a textbook, he made one of the most important discoveries in chemistry. Dmitrii Mendeleev wrote out the elements in a notecard, and after sometime uncovered that there was a pattern emerging and in this way the periodic table was born.<span class=""Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>"
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<p><span>In his own words Mendeleev states: “it is the function of science to d</span><span>iscover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.” Through this discovery we can learn that there is an inherent and underlying order of the natural world around us, and this order can be extend far beyond science, because it is the order of the universe itself.<span class=""Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>" readability="50.677819372953">
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In nature there is an inherent complexity and inherent simplicity which paradoxically go hand in hand. The most seemingly simple of things, are often ones that least understood and are most complex. One example of that is water. Although it is abundant on earth, and vital to our survival, it may surprise you that it is one of the most researched substances and one that chemists and physicists don’t completely understand because it behaves differently then other substances of its class. In essence, many of the things we have yet to grasp about nature are due to the fact that beyond the surface, there is a complex web of organizational structures that are not apparent to the naked eye and need to be finely understood.
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One of the scientist who understood that there is an intrinsic order to the world around us was Dmitrii Mendeleev. He discovered that there is a specific arrangement and relationship among the elements of the periodic table, or the elements that make up our natural world. This year marks the 150 year anniversary of the discovery and many events around the world are dedicated to celebrating it. What makes it most ground breaking and salient is that it forms the basis of chemistry, because it lays down the foundation and understanding of how different parts of natural elemental world are connected. Before this discovery, the elements were thought to make up a fragmented reality with little relation to each other. However, the importance of this discovery was that it not only showed the relationships between elements, it also allowed Dmitrii Mendeleev to predict the existence of other elements not yet know. Not only that, it actually confirmed the existence of atoms, or tiny microscopic building blocks of matter. In this way, Dmitrii Medeleev laid the foundation for mathematical reality of quantum mechanics which decades later would be discovered as a novel way to understand the microscopic functioning of our universe.
** ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY APRIL 20 ** Chemical Heritage Foundation librarian Christopher Stanwood wears white gloves as he handles the newly-acquired "Osnovy Khimii (Principles of Chemistry) by Dmitri Mendeleev, who developed the periodic table of the elements, at the foundation's rare book library in Philadelphia Wednesday April 7, 2004. The foundation has acquired the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library using a $10 miilion donation from Gordon and Betty Moore. The 6,000 books are from all six centuries since the development of the printing press, covering the earliest days of alchemy, mining, metallurgy, distilling, winemaking, the chemical industry and medicine. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Rumor or legend has it that Dmitrii Medeleev discovered the periodic table in one day, but in fact this idea has been on his mind for some time. As life would have, the path of Dmitrii Mendeleev to prominence was not a straight trajectory. Dmitrii Medeleev was a professor in St Petersburg University, and was about to teach inorganic chemistry, when he found out that he was not satisfied with the textbooks of inorganic chemistry at the time. Previously, when he was out of money and needed a job, thus he wrote an organic chemistry textbook, for which he received an award. Thus, writing textbooks was not unfamiliar to him, but what was different this time is that in embarking on this journey to write a textbook, he made one of the most important discoveries in chemistry. Dmitrii Mendeleev wrote out the elements in a notecard, and after sometime uncovered that there was a pattern emerging and in this way the periodic table was born.
In his own words Mendeleev states: “it is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.” Through this discovery we can learn that there is an inherent and underlying order of the natural world around us, and this order can be extend far beyond science, because it is the order of the universe itself.
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