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JOHN DALTON & THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE

by D.S.L. Cardwell

Published by Manchester University Press. 1st. 1968

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.

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.

ISBN: 0719003016
Stock no. 2128653

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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

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