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An unelementary affair

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, , Citation Robert P Crease 2019 Phys. World 32 (2) 27 DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/32/2/30

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1 Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US, www.robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. He is the author of The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority (WW Norton)

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Abstract

More than a thousand different versions of the periodic table have been created since Dmitri Mendeleev drew the first 150 years ago – but why is one version more familiar to us than practically every other? Robert P Crease finds out

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