Dreams That Changed Human History Forever

Periodic Table of Elements

Our entire scientific process is substantiated by the periodic table of elements. If you ever did chemistry in school, you will be familiar with one of these tables. They seem complicated, but they are a natural and hugely important part of the process of understanding elements. How did the table come about then, and how was the decision made to arrange the elements?

Well, Dmitri Mendeleev came up with the idea as a result of a dream he had. In the dream, he was trying different ways of arrangement and used music to figure out that the best way to arrange them was using their properties and atomic weight. You’ve got to be a bit of a genius to think this way anyway, and that’s obviously what Mendeleev was.