In 1864, John Newlands ordered the periodic table by relative atomic mass. After doing so, he regarded that each element was similar to the element 8 places further on. This is true for some many elements, such as Lithium and Sodium The name comes from musical instruments like the piano. There are 8 different notes in a piano, and moving up 8 notes is called an octave (1 jan 1864 ano – 23 h 59 m, 31 dez 1864 ano) (Linha do tempo)