An introduction to the atomic theory : comprising a sketch of the opinions entertained by the most distinguished ancient and modern philosophers with respect to the constitution of matter / by Charles Daubeny.

  • Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 1795-1867.
Date:
1831
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Credit: An introduction to the atomic theory : comprising a sketch of the opinions entertained by the most distinguished ancient and modern philosophers with respect to the constitution of matter / by Charles Daubeny. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO JOHN DALTON, F. R. S. President of the Literary and Philoaopliical Society of Manchester, responding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Institute of France, &c. THE AUTHOR OF A THEORY llTH RESPECT TO THE MODE OF COMBINATION BETWEEN BODIES, \rmCH STANDS FOREMOST AMONG THE DISCOVERIES OF THE PRESENT AGE, FOR THE UNTVERSAUTY OF ITS APPLICATIONS, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ITS PRACTICAL RESULTS; IDLDING THE SAME KIND OF RELATION TO THE SCIENCE OF CHEMISTRY, P WHICH THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM DOES TO THAT OF MECHANICS; AND PROMISING TO THROW LIGHT, NOT ONLY UPON ALL THE ORDINARY SUBJECTS OF CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION, L'JT EVEN UPON THOSE MORE SPECULATIVE QUESTIONS pWITH RESPECT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF MATTER, WHICH SEEMED TO LIE BEYOND THE REACH OF EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY; THIS ATTEMPT CO PLACE SIDE BY SIDE THE VIEWS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHERS, WITH REGARD TO A SUBJECT, WHICH BOTH HAVE EXERCISED THEIR INGENUITY, AND MADE TRIAL OF THEIR RESPECTIVE METHODS OF RESEARCH, IS INSCRIBED, AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT AND ADMIRATION, BY THE AUTHOR.
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