See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

ALEXANDER REINA See also:

• JOHN ALEXANDER REINA NEWLANDS (1838-1898)

NEWLANDS (1838-1898)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1838 . He was one of the first, if not quite the first, to propound the conception of periodicity among the chemical elements . His earliest contribution to the question took the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter published in the Chemical See also:

• NEWS

News in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1863 . In the succeeding See also:

• YEAR

year he showed, in the same See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal, that if the elements be arranged in the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of their atomic weights, those having consecutive See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers frequently either belong to the same See also:

• GROUP

group or occupy similar positions in different See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups, and he pointed out that each eighth See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element starting from a given one is in this arrangement a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of re-See also:

• PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

petition of the first, like the eighth See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note of an See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

octave in See also:

• MUSIC

music . The See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

Law of Octaves thus enunciated was at first ignored or treated with ridicule as a fantastic notion unworthy of serious See also:

• CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration, but the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea, subsequently elaborated by D . I . Mendeleeff and other workers into the Periodic Law, has taken its See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place as one of the most important generalizations in See also:

• MODERN

modern chemical theory . See also:

• NEWLANDS, JOHN ALEXANDER REINA (1838-1898)

Newlands, who was of See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian extraction on his See also:

• MOTHER

mother's See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, and fought as a volunteer in the cause of Italian freedom under See also:

• GARIBALDI, GIUSEPPE (1807-1882)

Garibaldi in 186o, died in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 29th of See also:

• JULY

July 1898 . He collected his various papers on the atomicity of the elements in a little See also:

• VOLUME

volume on the See also:

• DISCOVERY

Discovery of the Periodic Law published in London in 1884 .