Meteorological Observations and Essays

by John Dalton

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Manchester: Printed by Harrison and Crosfield for Baldwin and Cradock, 1834. Second edition first, 1793 , inscribed by Dalton, of Dalton’s first book which, according to Dalton himself, “contained the germs of most of the ideas afterwards expanded by him into discoveries” DNB V, 428-34 . Dalton 1766-1844 is famous today for his atomic theory of matter, but this grew out of his

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