Talk:John Alexander Reina Newlands

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what other important things were going on at the time of john Newlands in history? What year did he get married? Did he do anything else really imortant for chemistry? And what are some personal facts about him that would be interesting?

[edit] Publish date?

There is a dispute over the date Newlands' law was published (the reviewer says 1864) as noted in the review by Science of Dmitri Medeleev. Can someone comment based on the information on that talk page? - Taxman ^Talk 22:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Newlands published several short letters on classification of elements from 1863 to 1865 and he read a paper on the subject to the Chemical Society in 1866. (This paper was not published, but an account of it was reported in the Chemical News.) He applied the term "Law of octaves" starting in 1865. In my opinion, the term law of octaves does not apply to his work before 1865, because the idea of repetition on every 8th element was absent before then. See Newlands' letters [1]with or [2]without annotations. --192.231.124.80 (talk) 20:05, 19 November 2007 (UTC)Carmen Giunta