A New System of Chemical Philosophy Paperback / softback
by John Dalton
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences series
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The renowned English chemist and meteorologist John Dalton (1766-1844) published A New System of Chemical Philosophy in two volumes, between 1808 and 1827.
Dalton's discovery of the importance of the relative weight and structure of particles of a compound for explaining chemical reactions transformed atomic theory and laid the basis for much of what is modern chemistry.
Volume 2 was published in 1827. It contains sections examining the weights and structures of two-element compounds in five different groups: metallic oxides; earthly, alkaline and metallic sulphurets; earthly, alkaline and metallic phosphurets; carburet; and metallic alloys.
An appendix contains a selection of brief notes and tables, including a new table of the relative weights of atoms.
A planned second part was never published. Dalton's work is a monument of nineteenth-century chemistry.
It will continue to be read and enjoyed by anybody interested in the history and development of science.
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- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/09/2010
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- ISBN:9781108019682
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/09/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108019682
