Why did chemists not accept Newlands' ideas?

Chemists did not accept John Newlands' ideas primarily because his periodic law, which proposed that elements should be arranged by increasing atomic weight, led to inconsistencies. His classification resulted in groups of elements that did not share similar properties, particularly when noble gases were discovered later. Additionally, Newlands' "Law of Octaves" was seen as limited and not universally applicable, further diminishing its acceptance among the scientific community. His work, while innovative, lacked the empirical support and theoretical framework that later models, like Mendeleev's Periodic Table, provided.