Is it time to revamp the periodic table?
By Jon Lackman
Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005, at 5:15 AM PT
Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of
the elements, and it's a hit. American schools are placing orders daily
for Stewart's table, and the Royal Society of Chemists recently sent a
copy to every British secondary school. Stewart's is the only remake to
achieve widespread adoption since Dmitri Mendeleev invented the original
periodic table in a fit of brilliance in 1869.
http://www.slate.com/id/2122919
(Be sure to check out the "slide show")
The article also links to an interesting site about design, which
incidentally features several amusing uses of the traditional periodic
table visual design (you'll need to scroll down a fair way):
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/000048.html
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
