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"MEYER, LOTHAR. - THE PERIODIC TABLE & ""THE ATOMIC VOLUME CURVE"".
Reference : 43852
(1870)
Die Natur der chemischen Elemente als Function ihrer Atomgewichte. (Hierzu Tafel III).
Leipzig und Heidelberg, C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, 1870. No wrappers. In ""Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. Hrsg. und Redigiert von Friedrich Wöhler, Justus Liebig und Hermann Kopp"", VII. Supplementband. Pp. 354-364 a. 1 folded plate (The atomic volume curve). The entire volume offered ""VII. Supplementband."" (4),380 pp. and 3 folded plates. Small stamp on titlepage and verso of.
First appearance of this groundbreaking, classic paper in which Lothar Meyer first fully expressed his ideas of the relationsships between the atomic weight of the elements and their properties. In his ""Curve"" he plots the atomic volumes of the chemical elements against their weights and connects the points to obtain a curve with proonounced peaks and valleys. The periodicity in atomic volume and electrochemical behaviour revealed by this curve is matched by periodicities in other properties, such as fusibility and volatility etc.The ""Periodic Law"" may be stated in the words: The properties of the Elements are a periodic function of (or vary in a periodic manner with) the atomic weight. (Findlay).Lothar Meyer and Dimitri Mendeleev independently discovered the periodic system, but ""Meyer did not publish this work until after the appearance of Mendeleev's first paper on the subject in 1869. His table was very similar to that of Mendeleev, but it contained some improvements and was, perhaps, influential in causing some of the revisions made by Mendeleev in the second version of his table, published in 1870. In general, Meyer was more impressed by the periodicity of the physical properties of the elements, while Medeleev saw more clearly the chemical consequences of the periodic law.""(Source Book in Chemistry, p. 434). - Weeks p. 207 ff.
Les théories modernes de la chimie et leur application à la mécanique chimique. Traduit de l'allemand sur la cinquième édition par M. Albert Bloch et J. Meunier -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- 2 VOLUMES (complete set)
P., Carré, 1887/1889, 2 VOLUMES in 8, brochés, couvertures imprimées, (défraîchies, dos cassés et renforcés, cachets de bibliothèque -- Bon état intérieur), T.1 : (2), 8pp., 452pp., 1 PLANCHE DEPLIANTE, T.2 : 14pp., 312pp.
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- "MEYER had attended the 1860 Karlsruhe Congress, where he heard Cannizzaro and read his paper on the use of AVOGADRO's hypothesis and the law of DULONG and PETIT in establishing atomic weights and formulas... MEYER's Moderne Theorie was a direct outcome of that experience. In a brief obituary in 1895 the book was described as "not especially well received at first, but as years passed it exerted a more and more powerful influence on the thoughts of chemists. From a flimsy pamphlet it grew to a stately volume and it has generally been recognized as the best presentation of the fundamental principles of chemistry until the physicochemical movement began". (DSB IX pp. 347/353) ---- "Lothar MEYER's book, Die modernen Theorie der Chemie, is an extraordinarily clear statement of the fundamental principles of chemistry, which had a great influence". (Partington IV p. 889)**36730/3673/o7de
"MEYER, LOTHAR und KARL SEUBERT. - THE PERIODIC TABLE REVISED.
Reference : 44324
(1883)
Die Atomgewichte der Elemente aus den Originalzahlen neu berechnet.
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1883. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. X,245,(1) pp. Internally fine and clean.
Scarce first edition of this importent work which is a large extension of Meyer's classic paper of 1870, in which he independently of Mendeleev, discovered that the properties of the elements are a periodic function of (or vary in a periodic manner with) the atomic weight - the Periodic Table.""The significance of atomic weights in the demonstration of chemical periodicity, and the suspicion that some atomic weights were not accurate, led Meyer and Seubert to examine critically and to recalculate all atomic weights then considered importent. Their study was published in 1883 (the work offered). All atomic weights were referred to the standard of unity for the atomic weight of hydrogen, a standard that Meyer championed.....In 1903 the newly created International Commission of Atomic Weeights decided to publish parallel tables based on H=1 and O=16, a practice followed for many years.""(DSB IX, pp. 351-352).
