Foundations of the molecular theory
By: comprising papers and extracts by John Dalton, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, and Amedeo Avogadro (1808-1811)
Series: Alembic club reprints -- no. 4
Publisher: William F. Clay; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co.
Published: 1893
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Molecular theory
Notes: "The papers here reprinted in chronological order serve to exhibit the historical development of the idea of a connection existing between the number of particles in different gases and the volume they occupy."-Editor's pref.
Table of contents: title: Dalton, J. Extracts from A new system of chemical philosophy, pt. I, 1808.; title: Gay-Lussac, J. L. Memoir on the combination of gaseous substances with each other. [Soc. d'Arcueil. Mém. de phys., t. 2, 1809]; title: Dalton, J. Extract from A new system of chemical philosophy, pt. II, 1810.; title: Avogadro, A. Essay on a manner of determining the relative masses of the elementary molecules of bodies and the proportions in which they enter into these compounds. [Jour. de phys., v. 73, 1811]