The Principles of Chemistry. 3rd English Edition

2 Volume Set, Extra Shipping Fees may apply, please inquire. Very good clean copy in (faded) red cloth binding. Figures and tables interspersed throughout the text. Frontispiece (Volume I) is a picture of Lavoisier. Mendeleev’s work on this book led him to the discovery of the periodic law of the elements by which the elements are grouped by atomic weight and physical properties. Despite the work’s great importance, it was two decades before an English translation appeared. . Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, on February 7, 1834 (ns) and died on January 20, 1907 at the age of 73. Mendeleev's greatest accomplishment was the stating of the Periodic Law and the development of the Periodic Table. From early in his career, he felt that there was some type of order to the elements, and he spent more than thirteen years of his life collecting data and assembling the concept, initially with the idea of resolving some of the chaos in the field for his students. Mendeleev was one of the first modern-day scientists in that he did not rely solely on his own work but rather was in correspondence with scientists around the world in order to receive data that they had collected. He then used their data along with his own data to arrange the elements according to their properties. …