Testing the Prophesy
We highly recommend the book The Mystery of the Periodic Table from Ignatius Press, certainly one of their less conventional publications. It is a very easy read.
The Periodic Table of the Elements. Note the Atomic Number, or the number of protons in that element. Germanium is number 32.
Mendeleev’s original 1869 Periodic Table
Mendeleev’s revised 1871 Periodic Table
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
Dmitri Mendeleev