Abstract
WITHIN the last ten years chemistry has completely emancipated itself from a type of metaphysical obscurantism which seems to be invading physics in another disguise. Although a scientific atomic theory, as distinguished from the merely poetic efforts of the Greeks, appeared early in the seventeenth century, the chemical atomic theory on which the science is based is unquestionably the work of John Dalton. The story of Dalton has been told before, but the present small memoir may be welcomed as an interesting account which should find favour with students and the general reader.
John Dalton.
By L. J. Neville-Polley. (Pioneers of Progress. Men of Science.) Pp. 63. (London: S.P.C.K.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1920.) 2s.
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John Dalton . Nature 107, 678–679 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107678b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107678b0
