The Phaistos Disc Alias the Minoan Calendar [Paperback]

OLE Hagen (Author)

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In the eighty-sixties the knowledge of atomic weight and other properties for the elements had advanced to the point when time had come for setting up a superior system. This was among other realized by Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev a Russian scientist, and in the year 1869 he published the first design for a system with periods and groups of elements. It is worth mentioning, that the scheme implied correctly Be to be divalent, it was earlier considered as trivalent, likewise was Al. Be was simply fitting so well into Mendeleev's scheme with this new attribute, that it had to be true. Obviously there were empty spaces in the scheme, but they were correctly explained as - at that time - undiscovered elements. Due to such a lacuna hiatus, Mendeleev predicted the exsistence and the properties for an unknown element, which he named eka-boron. This matter was found 20 years later, and today it is known as scandium. Hereby the importance of a methodical location of the elements was demonstrated, and all scepticism surmounted. It would be right to claim, that the periodic table of the elements is the skeleton in the inorganic chemistry. What has all this talk about elements and empty spaces (and valence of 1,2 or 3) to do with the Phaistos disc, you may ask??? This is the point: In my searh for an explanation of the 70 stem-elements in the inscription, in the light of their properties I was taken to a well-hidden and well- proportioned system within the framework of a calendar. In another scale my discovery could then show to be yet another fascinating story of scientific detection.

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: 1st Book Library (February 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759611327
• ISBN-13: 978-0759611320
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,766,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)