Meteorological observations and essays / By John Dalton.

  • John Dalton
Date:
1834
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    and succeeding Essays. The first part of the work, or the observations, present nothing but what may be met with in numerous meteoro- logical journals both before and since this pub- lication, if we except the observations on the height of clouds, and a few of those on the aurora borealis. It is the second part of the work, or the Essays, that I consider of greater importance. The notions which I entertained of the aurora borealis will be perused with some interest, notwithstanding the lapse of forty years, and the numerous discoveries in electricity, gal- vanism and magnetism made since. At the conclusion of my former preface, I alluded to a person who had laid me under great obligations. That gentleman being now no more, I can speak of him without reserve. It was the late Joun Govenu, Esq. of Kendal. Mr. GoucH might justly be deemed a pro- digy in scientific attainments, considering the disadvantages under which he laboured. De- prived of sight in infancy (one or two years old) by the small pox, he was destined to live to an advanced age, under this, which is com- monly reputed one of the greatest misfortunes that can fall to the lot of man. In his case,