Because you need to know what you are looking for before actually trying something so you can prevent any accidents by doing stuff at random
The primary reason for this was that Mendeleev
didn't know that atomic numbers actually existed. Atomic numbers
were only discovered a period after Mendeleev's time. The use of X-rays made it
possible to find the atomic number, and those had not been discovered yet. <span>
<span>The periodic table was then arranged in 1913 by Henry Moseley
in an arrangement according to atomic number.</span></span>
