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JOHN DALTON & THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE

Written by D.S.L. Cardwell
Published by Manchester University Press in 1968
ISBN: 0719003016

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.

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Cover of JOHN DALTON & THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE by D.S.L. Cardwell

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