Eric Scerri is a full-time lecturer at UCLA. He is the author of numerous OUP books including A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science (2016) and The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction (2012).Guillermo Restrepo is a visiting professor in the Bioinformatics Group at Leipzig University.

The volume, edited by Eric Scerri and Guillermo Restrepo – both renowned experts on the philosophical questions related to the periodic system – will cement OUP's reputation as one of the most fruitful publishers of scholarship on the periodic table. The book comprises fifteen chapters which approach the subject from a commendable range of angles, so the volume delivers what its title promises.

• Preface1. Heavy, Superheavy...Quo Vadis?2. Nuclear Lattice Model and the Electronic Configuration of the Chemical Elements3. Amateurs and Professionals in Chemistry: The Case of the Periodic System4. The Periodic System: A Mathematical Approach5. The "Chemical Mechanics" of the Periodic Table6. The Grand Periodic Function7. What Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?8. The Periodic Table Retrieved from Density Functional Theory Based Concepts: The Electron Density, the Shape Function and the Linear Response Function9. Resemioticization of Periodicity: A Social Semiotic Perspective10. Organizing the Transition Metals11. The Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions: A New Periodic Table Founded on Non-Traditional Concepts12. The Origin of Mendeleev's Discovery of the Periodic System13. Richard Abegg and the Periodic Table14. The Chemist as Philosopher: D. I. Mendeleev's "The Unit" and "Worldview"15. The Philosophical Importance of the Periodic Table

Eric Scerri is a full-time lecturer at UCLA. He is the author of numerous OUP books including A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science (2016) and The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction (2012).Guillermo Restrepo is a visiting professor in the Bioinformatics Group at Leipzig University.

The volume, edited by Eric Scerri and Guillermo Restrepo – both renowned experts on the philosophical questions related to the periodic system – will cement OUP's reputation as one of the most fruitful publishers of scholarship on the periodic table. The book comprises fifteen chapters which approach the subject from a commendable range of angles, so the volume delivers what its title promises.

• Preface1. Heavy, Superheavy...Quo Vadis?2. Nuclear Lattice Model and the Electronic Configuration of the Chemical Elements3. Amateurs and Professionals in Chemistry: The Case of the Periodic System4. The Periodic System: A Mathematical Approach5. The "Chemical Mechanics" of the Periodic Table6. The Grand Periodic Function7. What Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?8. The Periodic Table Retrieved from Density Functional Theory Based Concepts: The Electron Density, the Shape Function and the Linear Response Function9. Resemioticization of Periodicity: A Social Semiotic Perspective10. Organizing the Transition Metals11. The Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions: A New Periodic Table Founded on Non-Traditional Concepts12. The Origin of Mendeleev's Discovery of the Periodic System13. Richard Abegg and the Periodic Table14. The Chemist as Philosopher: D. I. Mendeleev's "The Unit" and "Worldview"15. The Philosophical Importance of the Periodic Table