A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Paperback / softback Book

A New System of Chemical Philosophy Paperback / softback

Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences series

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The chemist and meteorologist John Dalton (1766–1844) published A New System of Chemical Philosophy in two volumes, between 1808 and 1827.

Dalton's discovery of the importance of the relative weight and structure of particles of a compound for explaining chemical reactions transformed atomic theory and laid the basis for much of what is modern chemistry.

Volume 1 was published in two parts, in 1808 and 1810.

Part 1 offers an account of Dalton's atomic theory. It contains chapters on temperature, the constitution of bodies, chemical synthesis and a number of plates including his famous table of symbols for the atoms of various elements.

Part 2 contains a chapter on elementary principles and twelve sections on different groups of two-element compounds.

Dalton's work is a monument of nineteenth-century chemistry.

It will continue to be read and enjoyed by anybody interested in the history and development of science.

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