SWhat changed
Chemical combining proportions acquired a reusable particulate explanatory framework and quantitative programme.
Scientific scope
Volume I of the 1808 New System; historically incorrect formulas and the later nuclear atom are excluded.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. This is the first volume of A New System of Chemical Philosophy. It records Dalton’s chemical model, including historically incorrect formulas, without treating atoms as the later nuclear model.
Contributors
- John Dalton · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Science History Institute digital copy: A New System of Chemical Philosophy
- Science History Institute: John Dalton
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