the Periodic Table is set up by atomic number, obviously. the atomic number is equal to the amount of protons, so the periodic table is set up by amount of proton order.
During the time more than 100 versions of the periodic table were proposed.
See the link bellow for some details; also the links of this...link.
Cobalt has always been an element.
There have been two make ups of the periodic table so far Mosley made the first one but was overtaken by Dimitri Mendeleev's form, which we use today.
Through compounds (one element plus another (only some have been found the periodic table always changes))
Elements have been and still are being added
Atomic Number
No one give number to elements in periodic table. they have been calculated
you find the ones that have been added to the periodic table in the old days
The Lanthanides and the Actinides have been moved in the periodic table simply to save space. --PainRain
Tin has been known since antiquity, and has been in the periodic table since the table was developed by Dmitri Mendeleev in the late 1860's.
He is important because he was the person who invented the Periodic Table and made it how it is today
Before the modern periodic table , the concepts for classification of elements were given by Dobereiner , Newland law of octaves ,Mendeleev's periodic table.
That stands for "One hundred eight Elements in the Periodic Table", but this is now obsolete. As of 2008, at least 117 elements have been discovered.