Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century

Abstract The aim of the series three articles entitled “Name game…” is to present historical information about nomenclature history every known chemical element. process naming each element analyzed, with particular emphasis on first publication a given name. It turned out that in many cases this not obvious and unambiguous, published data are even contradictory. In few cases, names elements were changed several times. Moreover, when author name known, it sometimes entirely clear which he/she used it. Therefore, an attempt sort issue publishing all 118 so far, based original source texts, available thanks digitization number collections scientific literature. divided according time discoveries: (1) research till end 18th century, (2) discoveries 19th (3) syntheses 20th 21st centuries. This article presents 37 elements: from antiquity, discovered nature named 17th century.