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).

An important addition to the literature on the history of chemistry. It gives a sound answer to the question it posed itself: How did the Periodic system come to be accepted by chemists throughout the world?

• 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

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).

An important addition to the literature on the history of chemistry. It gives a sound answer to the question it posed itself: How did the Periodic system come to be accepted by chemists throughout the world?

• 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

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).

An important addition to the literature on the history of chemistry. It gives a sound answer to the question it posed itself: How did the Periodic system come to be accepted by chemists throughout the world?

• 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