This document discusses the history and development of periodic classification of elements. It describes John Newlands' Law of Octaves from 1865, in which he arranged elements in order of atomic mass and found similarities between every eighth element. In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev published his periodic table arranging elements by atomic mass and leaving gaps for undiscovered elements, establishing the periodic law. Later, Henry Moseley arranged elements by atomic number in his 1913 modern periodic law. The document also outlines the four blocks of the modern periodic table - s-block, p-block, d-block and f-block - defined by the orbital in which the last electron is placed.
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