JOHN DALTON & THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
Written by D.S.L. Cardwell
Published by Manchester University Press
in 1968
ISBN: 0719003016
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JOHN DALTON & THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
Written by D.S.L. Cardwell.
Stock no. 2128653
1st.
1968.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Papers presented to a conference held to mark the bicentenary of Dalton's birth; held in Manchester September 19-24 1966. Edited by Cardwell, numerous contributors. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxii and 352 pages including index. ISBN: 0719003016. Some bumping and browning to spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned to spine and a little grubby, a few closed tears and chips repaired to verso with sticky tape.
Front cover
Contents
- John Dalton and the Manchester School of Science
- The Qualitative and the Quantitative
- The History of the Concept of Element
- Precursors to Dalton
- The Background to Dalton's Atomic Theory
- Quantified Chemistry - The Newtonian Dream
- Atomic Speculation in the Late Eighteenth Century
- The Industrial Background to John Dalton
- Dalton's Accomplishment in Meteorology
- Dalton's Scientific Apparatus
- Dalton's Caloric Theory
- Encounters with John Dalton
- Dalton and William Henry
- Dalton versus Prout: The Problem of Prout's Hypotheses
- Berzelius and the Development of the Atomic Theory
- The First Reception of Dalton's Atomic Theory in France
- Dalton and Structural Chemistry
- Russian Scientists and Dalton's Atomic Theory
- The Unsolved Problem of 'Daltonism'
- Dalton's Influence on Chemistry