Oldest Periodic Table Found At St Andrews University

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Periodic table found at St Andrews University 'is world's oldest'.

A periodic table found during a laboratory clear-out at the University of St Andrews is believed to be the oldest in the world.

Experts have dated the teaching chart as being printed between 1879 and 1886.

Work has been taking place to authenticate and preserve the fragile chart since it was found among old chemistry equipment in 2014.

Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev made his famous disclosure on periodicity in 1869.

The St Andrews chart bears an inscription identifying a scientific printer who operated in Vienna between 1875 and 1888.

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[JamesWhitehead]

A periodic table found during a laboratory clear-out at the University of St Andrews is believed to be the oldest in the world.

I read this initially to mean the earliest version of the periodic table. That would surely be in Mendeleev's papers.

This is just the oldest teaching chart of the table to survive. A nice antiquity more than a contribution to the history of science!