This video aims to show what the periodic table (and its predecessors) looked like each year from 1750 to the present. Obviously there are a lot of variations of the periodic table, so this video can't ever be 100% accurate to reality, but I tried my best.

The original version of this video that I made in 2019 has a lot of inaccuracies and omissions (in other words, I screwed up a lot and left some stuff out). Hence, here is a shiny new version where the vast majority of my mistakes have been fixed.

The "earth" minerals of Ca, Al, and Si (calx/lime, alumina, and silex/silica, respectively) were recognized as elements in 1739 (Ca, Si) and 1746 (Al) by Johann Pott. They should have been shown as elements from then to 1808, since they were recognized as elements (for example, by John Dalton) even though they hadn't been isolated from their minerals yet. Picking one discovery date for these "earth" elements is difficult since they were often recognized as being or containing new elements long before they could be isolated.

0:00 Intro
0:11 Early discoveries
1:21 Finding the elements
2:50 Arranging the elements
4:10 Filling the gaps
5:43 Element synthesis and the Transfermium Wars
7:07 Towards the island of stability
7:56 Outro

Music used:
- Private Reflection (Kevin MacLeod)
- Plans in Motion (Kevin MacLeod)
- Heroic Age (Kevin MacLeod)
- Decline (Kevin MacLeod)

Sources used:
Setting the Table: A brief visual history of the periodic table
Webpage by Jake Yeston, Nirja Desai, and Elbert Wang (2019)
https://vis.sciencemag.org/periodic-t...

The INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables
Webpage by Dr. Mark R. Leach (1999-2022)
https://www.meta-synthesis.com/webboo...

The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table’s Shadow Side
Book by Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna (2014)
ISBN: 0199383359, 9780199383351

Order From Confusion: International Chemical Standardization and the Elements, 1947-1990
Paper by Anne E. Robinson (2019)
doi.org/10.13128/Substantia-498

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of the Rare Earths
Book by Jean-Claude G. Bunzli and Vitalij K. Pecharsky (2010)
ISBN: 0444535918, 9780444535917

The Transuranium People: The Inside Story
Book by Albert Ghiorso, Darleane C. Hoffman, and Glenn T. Seaborg (2000)
ISBN: 9781783262441, 1783262443

Elementymology & Elements Multidict
Website by Peter van der Grogt (1999-2016)
https://elements.vanderkrogt.net/inde...

1650 English Periodic Table
Webpage by Michael Canov
https://canov.jergym.cz//objevite/obj...

A tale of oblivion: Ida Noddack and the “universal abundance” of matter
Article by Gildo Magalhães Santos (2014)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...

Méthode de nomenclature chimique
Book by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Antoine Lavoisier, et al. (in French) (1787)
https://books.google.com/books/about/...

Essai sur la théorie des proportions chimiques et sur l'influence chimique de l'électricité
Book by Jöns Jacob Berzelius (in French) (1819)
ISBN: 9780384040823, 0384040829

Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen
Book, published by Dietreich (in German) (1827)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

Report of the International Committee on Atomic Weights, 1912
Article by F. W. Clarke, W. Ostwald, T. E. Thorpe, and G. Urbain (1912)
https://doi.org/10.1039/CT9119901867

Principes de chimie fondée sur les théories modernes
Book by Alfred Naquet (in French) (1867)
https://archive.org/details/principes...

The Chemical Properties of Elements 94 and 93
Article by Glenn T. Seaborg and Arthur C. Wahl (1942, 1948)
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01183a076

Recalling radon’s recognition
Article by Brent F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1731

Various other chemistry books from the 1810s-2000s found while searching through Google Books

And, of course, Wikipedia.