John Dalton, F.R.S.: Member of the French Institute; Hon. D. C. L. Oxon.; LL. D. Edin.; President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester &c. &cG. Routledge and sons, 1874 - 320 pages |
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... discovery , adorned his temples and tombs with frescoes of matchless colours and unfading splendour ; and lastly , and not least significantly of his chemical skill , embalmed his dead for historic contemplation and wonder , if not for ...
... discovery , adorned his temples and tombs with frescoes of matchless colours and unfading splendour ; and lastly , and not least significantly of his chemical skill , embalmed his dead for historic contemplation and wonder , if not for ...
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... discovery of hydrogen , and the radi- cal difference between it and nitrogen , led to projects for a๋rial navigation or ballooning . He ascertained the composition of water from the union of two gases -oxygen and hydrogen — a discovery ...
... discovery of hydrogen , and the radi- cal difference between it and nitrogen , led to projects for a๋rial navigation or ballooning . He ascertained the composition of water from the union of two gases -oxygen and hydrogen — a discovery ...
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... discovery . Dalton's innate originality of method made him less prone to review the labours of those who had gone before him than was consistent with the position of a man who , inter alia , was not reticent as to his claims for novelty ...
... discovery . Dalton's innate originality of method made him less prone to review the labours of those who had gone before him than was consistent with the position of a man who , inter alia , was not reticent as to his claims for novelty ...
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... discovery which seems to open a new field of inquiry in philosophy , or rather , perhaps , to extend the bounds of one that has been , as yet , but just opened , it may not , perhaps , be unac- ceptable to many readers to state briefly ...
... discovery which seems to open a new field of inquiry in philosophy , or rather , perhaps , to extend the bounds of one that has been , as yet , but just opened , it may not , perhaps , be unac- ceptable to many readers to state briefly ...
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... discovery of the relation betwixt the phenomenon and the earth's magnetism . He writes : " When the theodolite was adjusted without doors , and the needle at rest , it was next to impossible not to notice the exactitude with which the ...
... discovery of the relation betwixt the phenomenon and the earth's magnetism . He writes : " When the theodolite was adjusted without doors , and the needle at rest , it was next to impossible not to notice the exactitude with which the ...
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Page 265 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
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Page 211 - Now it is one great object of this work, to show the importance and advantage of ascertaining the relative weights of the ultimate particles both of simple and compound bodies, the number of simple elementary particles which constitute one compound particle, and the number of less compound particles which enter into the formation of one more compound particle.
Page 180 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 158 - I am nearly persuaded that the circumstance depends upon the weight and number of the ultimate particles of the several gases : Those whose particles are lightest and single being least absorbable and the others more according as they increase in weight and complexity.
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Page 211 - But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies might have been inferred, from which their number and weight in various other compounds would appear, in order to assist and to guide future investigations, and to correct their results.
Page 293 - Thus it appears that there are two oxalates of strontian, the first obtained by saturating oxalic acid with strontian water, the second by mixing together oxalate of ammonia and muriate of strontian. It is remarkable that the first contains Just double the proportion of base contained in the second.