Meteorological observations and essays / By John Dalton.

  • John Dalton
Date:
1834
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    cessarily, and perhaps luckily, forced to con- template a good deal on the different subjects, and to try such experiments as were within my reach. The result was, that several . things occurred to me which were new, at least to myself, and which throw light on the different branches of natural philosophy, and of meteor- ology in particular. These I have thrown into the form of Essays, in which are also given, such useful discoveries and observations of others as seemed necessary to be known, in order to form a proper idea of the present state of the science, and of the improvements that are yet to? be® madesin? it: In the first part I have given not only the observations made at Kendal by myself, but also, with his leave, those made at Keswick by Mr. CrostHwaITE, keeper of the museum at that place, together with observations on the _ baro- meter and rain, made at London, for three years, taken from the Philosophical Transactions. The results of the several observations I have ar- ranged and digested to the best of my judgment. The observations on the height of the clouds, and on the aurora borealis, particularly the sup- plemental ones, are new, and, I suppose, in