A New System of Chemical Philosophy
A New System of Chemical Philosophy
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USDThe chemist and meteorologist John Dalton (1766–1844) published A New System of Chemical Philosophy in two volumes, between 1808 and 1827. Dalton's discovery of the importance of the relative weight and structure of particles of a compound for explaining chemical reactions transformed atomic theory and laid the basis for much of what is modern chemistry. Volume 1 was published in two parts, in 1808 and 1810. Part 1 offers an account of Dalton's atomic theory. It contains chapters on temperature, the constitution of bodies, chemical synthesis and a number of plates including his famous table of symbols for the atoms of various elements. Part 2 contains a chapter on elementary principles and twelve sections on different groups of two-element compounds. Dalton's work is a monument of nineteenth-century chemistry. It will continue to be read and enjoyed by anybody interested in the history and development of science.
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September 2010Paperback
9781108019675
592 pages
216 × 140 × 33 mm
0.74kg
8 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I
- Section 1. On Heat or Caloric:
- 1. On temperature, and the instruments for measuring it
- 2. On expansion by heat
- 3. On the specific heat of bodies
- 4. On the theory of the specific heat of elastic fluids
- 5. On the quantity of heat evolved by combustion, etc.
- 6. On the natural zero of temperature, or absolute privation of heat
- 7. On the motion and communication of heat, arising from inequality of temperature
- 8. On the temperature of the atmosphere
- 9. On the phenomena of the congelation of water
- Section 2. On the Constitution of Bodies:
- 1. On the constitution of pure elastic fluids
- 2. On the constitution of mixed elastic fluids
- 3. On the constitution of liquids, and the mechanical relations betwixt liquids and elastic fluids
- 4. On the constitution of solids
- Section 3. On Chemical Synthesis: Part II
- Section 4. On Elementary Principles:
- 1. On oxygen
- 2. On hydrogen
- 3. On azote or nitrogene
- 4. On carbone or charcoal
- 5. On sulphur
- 6. On phosphorus
- 7. On the metals
- Section 5. Compounds of Two Elements:
- 1. Oxygen with hydrogen
- 2. Oxygen with azote
- 3. Oxygen with carbone
- 4. Oxygen with sulphur
- 5. Oxygen with phosphorus
- 6. Hydrogen with azote
- 7. Hydrogen with carbone
- 8. Hydrogen with sulphur
- 9. Hydrogen with phosphorus
- 10. Carbone with sulphur, with phosphorus, and sulphur with phosphorus
- 11. Fixed alkalies
- 12. Earths.
