Abstract
John Dalton* (1766–1844), in the early years of the nineteenth century [see his biography by Thackray (DSB, III, pp. 537–547) and Thackray (1970)], observed that in a chemical reaction the chemical combining ratios of weights between two different elements appeared to be simple ratios of integers. From this observation, he deduced the existence of atoms of weights, all multiples of some unknown weight, peculiar to the atoms of the particular element. However, the physicists did not regard Dalton’s work as a complete proof of the existence of atoms (see Maiocchi, 1990).
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Lancaster, H.O. (1994). Later Influences of the Greek Authors. In: Quantitative Methods in Biological and Medical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2658-1_2
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