ABSTRACT
The Periodic Table enabled to predict new elements, so the proper arrangements of known particles in elementary particle physics also led to successful predictions. This chapter presents the arrangements of components in a table. First we have the chemical elements arranged in the Periodic Table; thereafter we have the elementary particles arranged in simple figures of six or eight sides. Elements were known as substances which cannot be decomposed chemically into simpler substances, and elements like oxygen, carbon, gold and silver were, of course, well known from the times of the alchemists; and so were mercury and sulfur and their combinations. The science of chemistry has also a rich ancestry in alchemy, an early form of chemistry associated with magic and the conversion of base metals into gold. The British Association for the Advancement of Science meets at Manchester amidst cigar smoke and conversation.
