Books on the Elements and the Periodic Table
(The most complete and up to date list published anywhere, including some titles in
foreign languages). Additional books in other languages can be found listed in
Mazurs, 1974.
H. Alderesey-Williams, Periodic Tales, Viking Press, 2011.
N.P. Agafoshin, Ley Periódica y Sistema Periódico de los Elementos de Mendeleiev, Ed.
Reverté S.A., Barcelona, 1977.
I. Asimov, The Building Blocks of the Universe, Lancer Books, New York, 1966.
P.W. Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom, Basic Books, New York, NY, 1995.
O. Baca Mendoza, Leyes Geneticas de los Elementos Quimicos. Nuevo Sistema
Periodico, Universidad Nacional de Cuzco, Cuzco, Peru, 1953
P. Ball, A Guided Tour of the Ingredients, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.
P. Ball, A Very Short Introduction to the Elements, Oxford University Press, 2004.
I. Barber, Sorting The Elements: The Periodic Table at Work, Rourke Publishing,
Vero Beach, Florida, US, 2008.
R. Baum (ed), Celebrating the Periodic Table, Chemical & Engineering News,, A
Special Collector’s Issue, September 8, 2003.
H.A. Bent, New Ideas in Chemistry from Fresh Energy for the Periodic Law, Author
House, Bloomington IN, 2006.
J. Bernstein, Plutonium, Joseph Henry, Washington DC, 2007.
J. C.A. Boeyens, D.C. Lavendis, Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter,
Springer, Berlin, 2008.
N. Bohr, Collected Works Vol 4. The Periodic System (1920-1923), Nielsen J Rud
(Editor), North Holland Publishing Company, 1977.
T. Bondora, The Periodic Table of Elements Coloring Book, Bondora Educational
Media Publications, 2010
D.G. Cooper, The Periodic Table, 3rd edition. Butterworths, London, 1964.
P.A. Cox, The Elements, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989.
P. Depovere, La Classification périodique des éléments, De Boeck, Bruxelles, 2002.
H. Dingle and G.R. Martin, Chemistry and Beyond: Collected Essays of F.A.
Paneth, Interscience, New York, NY, 1964.
S. Dockx, Theorie Fondamentale du Systeme Periodique des Elements, Office
Internationale de Librairie, Bruxelles, 1950.
A. Ducrocq, Les éléments au pouvoir , Julliard, Paris, 1976.
A. Ede, The Chemical Elements, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2006.
J. Emsley, The Elements, 3rd edition. Clarendon, Oxford University Press, 1998.
J. Emsley, Nature’s Building Blocks, An A-Z Guide to the Elements, Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 2001.
P. Enghag, Encyclopedia of the Elements, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2004.
D.E. Fisher, Much Ado About (Practically) Nothing, The History of the Noble Gases,
Oxford University Press, New York, 2010.
I. Freund, The Study of Chemical Composition: An Account of its Method and
Historical Development, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1968.
J. García-Sancho & F. Ortega-Chicote, Periodicidad Química, Trillas, México, 1984.
A. E. Garrett, The Periodic Law, D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1909.
L. Garzon Ruiperez, De Mendeleiev a Los Superelementos, Universidad de Oviedo,
Oviedo, 1988.
L. Gonik, C. Criddle, The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, Harper Resource, New York,
2005.
M. Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing, Dimitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic
Table, Basic Books, New York, 2004.
T. Gray, The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe,
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009.
D. Green, The Elements, The Building Blocks of the Universe, Scholastic Inc. New York,
2012.
R. Hefferlin, Periodic Systems and their Relation to the Systematic Analysis of
Molecular Data, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1989.
D.L. Heiserman, Exploring the Chemical Elements and their Compounds, McGraw-Hill
New York, 1991.
S. Hofmann, Beyond Uranium, Taylor & Francis, London, 2002.
F. Hund, Linienspektren und Periodisches System der Elemente, Verlag von Julius
Springer, Berlin, 1927.
W.B. Jensen, Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 – 1905, Dover,
Mineola, NY, 2005.
S. Kean, The Disappearing Spoon, Little, Brown & Co., New York, 2010.
B.M. Kedrov, Filosofski Analiz Pervych Troedov D.I. Mendeleeva o Perioditsekom
Zakone (1869-1871), Moscow, 1959.
D.M. Knight, Classical Scientific Papers, Chemistry Second Series, American, Elsevier,
New York, NY,
P.K. Kuroda, The Origin of the Chemical Elements, and the Oklo Phenomenon,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1982.
H.M. Leicester and H.S. Klickstein, A Source Book in Chemistry 1400–1900, 1st
Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., London, 1952.
M.F. L’Annunziata, Radioactivity, Introduction and History, Elsevier, 2007.
S.E.V. Lemus, Clasificación periódica de Mendelejew, Guatemalan Ministry of Public
Education, Guatemala, 1959.
P. Levi, The Periodic Table, 1st American Edition. Schocken Books, New York, NY,
1984.
R. Luft, Dictionnaire des Corps Simples de la Chimie, Association Cultures et
Techniques, Nantes, 1997.
J. Marshall, Discovery of the Elements, Pearson Custom Publishing, 1998.
E. Mazurs, Graphic Representation of the Periodic System During One Hundred Years,
Alabama University Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1974.
D. Mendeleeff. An Attempt Towards A Chemical Conception of the Ether,
translated by G. Kamensky. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1904.
D. Mendeleeff, The Principles of Chemistry, translated by G. Kamensky, 5th
Edition, vol. 2. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1891.
L. Meyer, Modern Theories of Chemistry, 5th Edition, translated by P.P. Bedson,
Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1888.
L. Meyer, Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry, 2nd Edition, translated by P.P.
Bedson and W.C. William. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1899.
F. Mohr, (E), Gold Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, 2009.
D. Morris, The Last Sorcerers, The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table, Joseph
Henry Press, New York, 2003.
I. Nechaev, G.W. Jenkins, The Chemical Elements, Tarquin Publications, Norfolk, UK,
1997.
R.D. Osorio Giraldo, M.V. Alzate Cano, La Tabla Periodica, Bogota, Colombia, 2010.
M.J. Pentz, (General Editor), The Periodic Table and Chemical Bonding, Open
University Press, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, UK, 1971.
I.V. Peryanov, D.N. Trifonov, Elementary Order: Mendeleev’s Periodic System,
translated from the Russian by Nicholas Weinstein, Mir Publishers, Moscow,
1984.
J.S.F. Pode, The Periodic Table, John Wiley, New York, NY, 1971.
R.J. Puddephatt, The Periodic Table of the Elements, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
1972.
R.J. Puddephatt and P.K. Monaghan, The Periodic Table of the Elements, 2nd edition.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986.
H.-J. Quadbeck-Seeger, World of the Elements, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2007
E. Rabinowitsch, E. Thilo, Periodisches System, Geschichte und Theorie, Stuttgart,
1930.
R. Rich, Periodic Correlations, Benjamin, New York, 1965.
J. Ridgen, Hydrogen, the Essential Element, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,
2002.
H. Rossotti, Diverse Atoms, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.
D.H. Rouvray, R.B. King, The Periodic Table Into the 21st Century, Research Studies
Press, Baldock, UK, 2004.
D.H. Rouvray, R.B. King, The Mathematics of the Periodic Table, Nova Scientific
Publishers, New York, 2006.
G. Rudorf, The Periodic Classification and the Problem of Chemical Evolution,
Whittaker & Co., London, New York, 1900.
G. Rudorf, Das periodische System, seine Geschichte und Bedeutung für die chemische
Sysytematik, Hamburg-Leipzig, 1904.
O. Sacks, Uncle Tungsten, Vintage Books, New York, 2001.
R.T. Sanderson. Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, School Technical Publishers,
Ann Arbor,MI, 1971.
S. E. Santos, La Historia del Sistema Periodico, Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia, Madrid, 2009.
E.R. Scerri. The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press,
New York, 2007.
E.R. Scerri, Selected Papers on the Periodic Table, Imperial College Press, London and
Singapore, 2009.
E.R. Scerri, A Very Short Introduction to the Periodic Table, Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 2011; Also translated into Spanish and Arabic.
E.R. Scerri, Le Tableau Périodique, Son Histoire et sa Signification, EDP Sciences,
2011, (translated by R. Luft); Japanese Translation by Hisao Mabuchi et. al.
C. Schmidt, Das periodische System der chemischen Elementen, Leipzig, 1917.
G.T. Seaborg, W.D. Loveland, The Elements Beyond Uranium, Wiley, New York, 1990.
M.S. Sethi, M. Satake, Periodic Tables and Periodic Properties, Discovery Publishing
House, Delhi, India, 1992.
H.H. Sisler, Electronic Structure, Properties, and the Periodic Law, Reinhold, New
York, 1963.
P. Strathern, Mendeleyev’s Dream, Hamish-Hamilton, London, 1999.
R.S. Timmreck, The Power of the Periodic Table, Royal Palm Publishing, 1991.
M. Tweed, Essential Elements, Walker and Company, New York, 2003.
F.P. Venable, The Development of the Periodic Law, Chemical Publishing Co., Easton,
PA, 1896.
M.E. Weeks, Discovery of the Elements, Journal of Chemical Education, Easton PA,
1960.
B.D. Wilker, The Mystery of the Periodic Table, Bethlehem Books, New York, 2003.
J. Van Spronsen, The Periodic System of the Chemical Elements, A History of the First
Hundred Years, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1969.
B. Yorifuji, Wonderful Life with the Elements, No Starch Press, San Francisco, 2012.
T. Zoellner, Uranium, Penguin Books, London, 2009.
A. Zwertska, The Elements, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.
Works by D. I. Mendeleev
Nauchnyi arkhiv. Periodicheskii zakon, t. I, ed. B. M. Kedrov. Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR,
1953.
Periodicheskii zakon. Dopolnitel’nye materialy. Klassiki nauki, ed. B. M. Kedrov.
Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR, 1960.
Periodicheskii zakon. Klassiki nauki, ed. B. M. Kedrov. Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR, 1958.
Russian books on the Periodic System
Dobrotin, R. B. “Rannii period nauchnoi deiatel’nosti D. I. Mendeleeva kak etap na
puti k otkrytiiu periodicheskogo zakona.” Unpublished kandidat
dissertation, Leningrad State University, 1953.
Figurovskii, N. A. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, 1834-1907. Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR,
1961.
Ionidi, P. P. Filosofskoe znachenie periodicheskogo zakona D. I. Mendeleeva. Moscow:
Znanie, 1958.
Kedrov, B. M. Den’ odnogo velikogo otkrytiia. Moscow: Izd. sotsial’noekonomichekoi literatury, 1958.
. Filosofskii analiz pervykh trudov D. I. Mendeleeva o periodicheskom zakone.
Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR, 1959.
. Mikroanatomiia velikogo otkrytiia: K 100-letiiu zakona Mendeleeva.
Moscow: Nauka, 1970.
. Razvitie poniatiia elementa ot Mendeleeva do nashikh dnei: Opyt istorikologicheskogo issledovaniia. Moscow: OGIZ, 1948.
. Tri aspekta atomistiki. III. Zakon Mendeleeva: Logiko-istoricheskii aspekt.
Moscow: Nauka, 1969.
Kedrov, B. M. and D. N. Trifonov, eds. Prognozirovanie v uchenii o periodichnosti.
Moscow: Nauka, 1976.
. Zakon periodichnosti i khimicheskie elementy. Otkrytiia i khronologiia.
Moscow: Nauka, 1969.
Kurbatov, V. Ia. Zakon D. I. Mendeleeva. Leningrad: Nauchnoe KhimikoTekhnicheskoe izd., 1925.
Levinskii, Iu. V., ed. Periodicheskii zakon i stroenie atoma. Moscow: Atomizdat,
1971.
Makarenia, A. A. D. I. Mendeleev i fiziko-khimicheskie nauki: Opyt nauchnoi biografii
D. I. Mendeleeva. Moscow: Energoizdat, 1982.
. D. I. Mendeleev o radioaktivnosti i slozhnosti elementov. Moscow:
Atomizdat, 1965.
Morozov, Nikolai. D. I. Mendeleev i znachenie ego periodicheskoi sistemy dlia khimii
budushchago. Moscow: I. D. Sytin, 1908.
Periodicheskii zakon D. I. Mendeleeva i ego filosofskoe znachenie: Sbornik statei.
[Moscow]: Gos. izd. politicheskoi literatury, 1947.
Rabinovich, E. and E. Tilo. Periodicheskaia sistema elementov: Istoriia i teoriia, tr. I.
M. Frank and L. A. Tumerman. Moscow: Gos. tekniko-teoreticheskoe izd.,
1933.
Semenov, N. N., ed. Sto let periodicheskogo zakona khimicheskikh elementov.
Moscow: Nauka, 1969.
Semenov, N. N., ed. Sto let periodicheskogo zakona khimicheskikh elementov:
Doklady na plenarnykh zasedaniiakh. Moscow: Nuaka, 1971.
Semishin, V. I. Literatura po periodicheskomu zakonu D. I. Mendeleeva (1869-1969).
Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1969.
Semishin, V. I. Periodicheskii zakon i periodicheskaia sistema khimicheskikh
elementov D. I. Mendeleev v rabotakh russkikh uchenykh. Moscow:
Moskovskii institut khimicheskogo mashinostroeniia, 1959.
Tishchenko, V. E. and M. N. Mladentsev. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, ego zhizn’ i
deiatel’nost, v. 1: Universitetskii period, 1861-1890 gg. Moscow: Nauka, 1993.
Trifonov, D. N. O kolichestvennoi interpretatsii periodichnosti. Moscow: Nauka,
1971.
. Problema redkhikh zemel’. Moscow: Gosatomizdat, 1962.
. Redkozemel’nye elementy. Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR, 1960.
. Redkozemel’nye elementy i ikh mesto v periodicheskoi sisteme. Moscow:
Nauka, 1966.
, ed. Uchenie o periodichenosti: Istoriia i sovremennost’. Moscow: Nauka,
1981.
Vol’fkovich, S. I. and V. S. Kiselev, eds. 75 let periodicheskogo zakona D. I. Mendeleeva
i Russkogo khimicheskogo obshchestva. Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR, 1947.
Zabrodskii, G. A. Mirovozzrenie D. I. Mendeleeva: K piatidesiatiletiiu so dnia smerti
(1907-1957). Moscow: Gos. izd. politicheskoi literatury, 1957.