History of the periodic table
（重定向自Law of Octaves）
![A collection of historic documents that led to the development of the modern periodic table (clockwise from top left) - Lavoisier's 'Table of Simple substances'; de Chancourtois' 'Vis Tellurique'; Mendeleyev's hand-written periodic table; a modern periodic table; John Dalton's list of atomic weights & symbols.](/Images/godic/202501/23/Periodic_table_compilation.svg0249.png")
![Hennig Brand, as shown in The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus](/Images/godic/202501/23/Henning_brand0249.jpg")
![Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier](/Images/godic/202501/23/Lavoisier0249.jpg")
![Newlands' law of octaves](/Images/godic/202501/23/Newlands_periodiska_system_18660249.png")
The periodic table is an arrangement of the chemical elements, organized on the basis of their atomic numbers, electron configurations and recurring chemical properties. Elements are presented in order of increasing atomic number. The standard form of the table consists of a grid of elements, with rows called periods and columns called groups.