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>More branding than reality, since we accomplished their projects later — transmuting elements and detecting the aether.

Arguably this was accomplished using the work of alchemists. Ontologies tend to progress through stages of differentiation of components("stamp collecting") followed by integrative models. Mendeleev doesn't find periodic patterns in elements without alchemists first inventorying elemental features.



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