Gass, Gillian Linda (Author)
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the English chemist John Dalton (1766-1844) developed his atomic theory, a set of theoretical commitments describing the nature of atoms and the rules guiding their interactions and combinations. In this paper, I examine a set of conceptual and illustrative tools used by Dalton in developing his theory as well as in presenting it to the public in printed form as well as in his many public lectures. These tools - the concept of 'atmosphere', the pile of shot analogy, and Dalton's system of chemical notation - served not just to guide Dalton's own thinking and to make his theories clear to his various audiences, but also to bind these theories together into a coherent system, presented in its definitive form in the three volumes of A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808, 1810, and 1827). Despite these links, Dalton's contemporaries tended to pick and choose which of his theories to accept; his system of notation failed to be adopted in part because it embodied the whole of his system indivisibly.
...MoreDescription “I examine a set of conceptual and illustrative tools used by Dalton in developing his [atomic] theory as well as in presenting it to the public in printed form as well as in his many public lectures.” (from the abstract)
Article
Pier Remigio Salvi;
(2023)
Dalton's Long Journey from Meteorology to the Chemical Atomic Theory
(/isis/citation/CBB368574264/)
Article
Mark I. Grossman;
(2021)
John Dalton’s “Aha” Moment: The Origin of the Chemical Atomic Theory
(/isis/citation/CBB038145467/)
Book
Benny Shilo;
(2014)
Life's Blueprint: The Science and Art of Embryo Creation
(/isis/citation/CBB088969067/)
Article
Hackmann, Willem;
(2007)
The Iconography of Early Electricity
(/isis/citation/CBB000831665/)
Article
Berkowitz, Carin;
(2013)
Systems of Display: The Making of Anatomical Knowledge in Enlightenment Britain
(/isis/citation/CBB001213504/)
Article
Kelly Krause;
(2016)
A Framework for Visual Communication at Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB025509663/)
Book
Nancy Rose Marshall;
(2021)
Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB466922035/)
Chapter
Lightman, Bernard;
(2006)
Depicting Nature, Defining Roles: The Gender Politics of Victorian Illustration
(/isis/citation/CBB000772477/)
Article
Bonitàcio, Vitor;
Malaquias, Isabel;
Fernandes, Joǎo;
(2008)
Ernesto Vasconcellos' Astronomia Photographica: The Earliest Popular Book on Astronomical Photography?
(/isis/citation/CBB001034772/)
Book
Kember, Joe;
Plunkett, John;
Sullivan, Jill A.;
(2012)
Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910
(/isis/citation/CBB001250506/)
Article
Kargon, Jeremy;
(2014)
The Logic of Color: Theory and Graphics in Christine Ladd-Franklin's Explanation of Color Vision
(/isis/citation/CBB001201297/)
Essay Review
Coppola, Al;
(2011)
Science/Spectacle
(/isis/citation/CBB001566424/)
Chapter
Vollmer, S. H.;
(2006)
Space in Molecular Representation; Or How Pictures Represent Objects
(/isis/citation/CBB000600199/)
Article
Dörries, Matthias;
(2008)
The “Winter” Analogy Fallacy: From Superbombs to Supervolcanoes
(/isis/citation/CBB000931789/)
Book
Remmert, Volker R.;
(2011)
Picturing the Scientific Revolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001221404/)
Chapter
Vermij, Rienk;
(2011)
The Light of Nature and the Allegorisation of Science on Dutch Frontispieces around 1700
(/isis/citation/CBB001201619/)
Chapter
Erich PAUER;
(2020)
Vehicles of Knowledge: Japanese Technical Drawings in the Pre-modern Era, 1600–1868
(/isis/citation/CBB812379942/)
Book
Michael Sappol;
(2017)
Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject
(/isis/citation/CBB583589091/)
Article
Lepicard, Etienne;
(2008)
An Alternative to the Cosmic and Mechanic Metaphors for the Human Body? The House Illustration in Ma'aseh Tuviyah (1708)
(/isis/citation/CBB000774860/)
Article
Norberto Serpente;
(2016)
Justifying molecular images in cell biology textbooks: From constructions to primary data
(/isis/citation/CBB216748135/)
Be the first to comment!