The document discusses three different periodic tables: Mendeleev's, Moseley's, and the modern periodic table. It provides details on Mendeleev's table, including that he prepared cards for each known element listing its name, atomic mass, and properties. He arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic mass from left to right in horizontal rows, called periods, and grouped elements with similar chemical properties in vertical columns, called groups. Mendeleev's periodic table was the first successful attempt to classify elements and predicted properties of undiscovered elements.