Janets Spiral Periodic Table

Janets Spiral Periodic Table

My office bookshelf fell off the wall today; to lighten the load I decided to read something on it: working in an environment of higher education, I pickup a lot of junk books:

Above is Janet’s Spiral Periodic Table from E.G. Mazur’s Graphic Representations of the Periodic System during One Hundred Years

(1974), cited in Punyashloke Mishra’s The Role of Abstraction in Scientific Illustration: Implications for Pedagogy (1999) republished in Carolyn Handa’s Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook. Got all that?

I had to scan Janet’s Spiral out of the book since I couldn’t find it on the internet. I did find Alexander Roy’s patented and $14.95 Desktopper. He seems to tout it as originally his, but it’s trivially Janet’s Spiral Periodic table if you stuck your finger into each spiral and pulled up.

Update:

Having just printed off and built the paper template included in the patent application, I must admit the design is a unique and  innovative.

Below is from the patent:

Alexander Periodic 1Alexander Periodic 2

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Thanks for the reprieve.
There have been other precursors to the alexander arrangement besides Janet.
De Chancourtois is one. He was a precursor to Mendeleyev as well.
Ignorance, as they say, is bliss, and I and my Patent Office Examiner knew nothing of any earlier periodic tables suggesting 3 dimensions.
Roy

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