Author: Henry E. Roscoe

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-27

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9781330428436

Excerpt from A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory It may seem remarkable that, after the lapse of nearly a century since John Dalton first applied the atomic theory of matter to chemical phenomena, it should be possible to find anything new respecting the genesis of his ideas. And this is the more remarkable when we remember that the life and scientific labours of the great Manchester chemist have formed the subject of independent memoirs at the hands of two such able contemporaries as Charles Henry and Angus Smith. The explanation is to be found in the unlooked-for discovery, in the rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, where the whole of Dalton's experimental work was carried out, of his laboratory and lecture notebooks contained in a number of manuscript volumes. A careful study of these has led us to conclusions concerning the origin of the atomic theory of chemistry which differ widely from those which have been generally accepted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.