The Bible has chemistry: on the 150th year of Mendeleev’s periodic table

Authors

  • Joaquim Malé Institut Superior de Ciències Religioses de Girona. La Salle Girona
  • Pep Anton Vieta Saint George’s School Girona

Keywords:

Periodic table, Bible, chemical elements, metals, Mendeleev.

Abstract

Chemistry is in everything. Moreover, it may be added to this truism that it has always been this way and always will be. On the occasion of the celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, we are publishing the results of a multidisciplinary research aimed to locate chemical elements in the pages of the Bible. Taking metals as the object of our study in this paper, it may be seen that, despite the spatial and temporal distance that separates us from the men and women of biblical times, they used and valued these materials as much as we do today.

Keywords: Periodic table, Bible, chemical elements, metals, Mendeleev.

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Author Biographies

Joaquim Malé, Institut Superior de Ciències Religioses de Girona. La Salle Girona

Joaquim Malé és doctor en història per la Universitat de Girona i biblista. Exerceix de professor de secundària a La Salle Girona, professor de Sagrada Escriptura a l’Institut Superior de Ciències Religioses de Girona (ISCRG) i professor convidat a la Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya. És membre de l’Associació Bíblica de Catalunya.

Pep Anton Vieta, Saint George’s School Girona

Pep Anton Vieta és doctor en química per la Universitat de Girona i professor de ciències a secundària a Saint George’s School (Fornells de la Selva). Entusiasta de la taula periòdica dels elements com a símbol de la cultura científica, és també un apassionat dels experiments de ciència recreativa i les eines TIC i 2.0, especialment Twitter (@pquimic), com a recursos per a la comunicació, divulgació i didàctica de la ciència. Forma part de l’equip impulsor de la celebració de l’AITP 2019 a Catalunya (SCQ).

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No. 18 (2019)

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