The book John Dalton And the Rise of Modern Chemistry was written by author Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915 Here you can read free online of John Dalton And the Rise of Modern Chemistry book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is John Dalton And the Rise of Modern Chemistry a good or bad book?
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According to the second, no limit is placed on the divisibility of matter, and there- fore no finite particles exist, and all we observe is explained by attractions or repulsions. The one 127 128 JOHN DALTON. involves the discontinuity of matter, the other involves its continuity. The atomic view was held not only by the Greek and Roman philosophers, but also by the wise men of the East in Egypt and India. And the conviction that matter was not of haphazard constitution, but was arranged accord...ing to definite laws, appears to have been long borne in upon the human mind, and is expressed in the well-known words : " God ordered all things by measure, number, and weight." Newton was a staunch upholder of the Atomic Theory. " It seems," * says Newton, " probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them ; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God Him- self made one in the first creation.
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