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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... opened out fresh fields of inquiry of large interest and importance . The Stahlian theory of phlogiston did service in its way , in laying hold of a common principle in facts more or less analogous , e.g. , those of combustion.
... opened out fresh fields of inquiry of large interest and importance . The Stahlian theory of phlogiston did service in its way , in laying hold of a common principle in facts more or less analogous , e.g. , those of combustion.
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... inquiry and investigation . As pilgrimages to the shrines of saints draw thousands of English Catholics to the Continent , there may be some persons in the British Islands sufficiently in love with science , not only to revere the ...
... inquiry and investigation . As pilgrimages to the shrines of saints draw thousands of English Catholics to the Continent , there may be some persons in the British Islands sufficiently in love with science , not only to revere the ...
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... inquire the date of his birth , and he , being appealed to , and knowing nothing of the pleasures of birthdays , those first intelligible memoranda of the youthful mind , could not answer the question satisfactorily . After various ...
... inquire the date of his birth , and he , being appealed to , and knowing nothing of the pleasures of birthdays , those first intelligible memoranda of the youthful mind , could not answer the question satisfactorily . After various ...
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... inquiry , and pos- sessing a genetic force to cope with difficulties whence- soever arising , he would seem to have anticipated Schelling's observation , that philosophy advances not so much by the answers to difficult problems , as by ...
... inquiry , and pos- sessing a genetic force to cope with difficulties whence- soever arising , he would seem to have anticipated Schelling's observation , that philosophy advances not so much by the answers to difficult problems , as by ...
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... inquiry . All this would be patent to Dalton , and the encoun- tering of difficulties at the very threshold would really offer the largest inducement to him to per- severe in the pursuit . As the thermometer , baro- meter , and rain ...
... inquiry . All this would be patent to Dalton , and the encoun- tering of difficulties at the very threshold would really offer the largest inducement to him to per- severe in the pursuit . As the thermometer , baro- meter , and rain ...
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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.
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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.