Abstract
IT is now more than forty years since Ampère, in his lectures at the Collége de France, was discussing the evidence in favour of the existence of atoms, and the difficulties of any scientific investigation of their properties and relations. M. Gaudin, one of his hearers, was struck, as he tells us, with the importance of this investigation, and then and there devoted the efforts of his whole life to carry it out. Accordingly, in 1832 he presented a very extensive work to the Academy of Sciences, a report on which, by MM. Gay-Lussac and Becquerel, is annexed to the volume before us.
L'Architecture du Monde des Atomes, devoilant la structure des composés chimiques et leur cristallogénic.
Par Marc-Antoine Gaudin. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873.)
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Gaudin's “World of Atoms” . Nature 8, 81–82 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008081b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008081b0
