Chapter I: Front Matter

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A NEW SYSTEM OF
CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY.

PART FIRST.--VOL. II.

REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILIE

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A NEW SYSTEM OF
CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY.

_PART FIRST_
OF
VOL. II.

BY
JOHN DALTON, F.R.S.

President of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester.
Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris,
Member of the Royal Academy, Munich, and of the Cæsarean
Natural History Society, Moscow;
Honorary Member of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh,
and of the Philosophical Societies of Bristol, Cambridge,
Leeds, Sheffield and Yorkshire.

Manchester:
Printed by the Executors of S. Russell.
FOR
GEORGE WILSON, ESSEX STREET, STRAND
_LONDON_.

1827.

TO
JOHN SHARPE, ESQ. F. R. S.
OF STANMORE, MIDDLESEX,
(_Late of Manchester_,)

AS A TESTIMONY OF HIS FRIENDLY REGARD, AND OF HIS
LIBERAL ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN TO THE PROMOTION
OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE:

AND TO
PETER EWART, ESQ.
_Vice-President of the Literary and Philosophical Society
of Manchester_,

ON THE SCORE OF FRIENDSHIP,
BUT MORE ESPECIALLY FOR THE ABLE EXPOSITION AND
EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL
PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS,
IN HIS ESSAY ON THE MEASURE OF MOVING FORCE,[1]

THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY

_THE AUTHOR_.

[Footnote 1: Manchester Memoirs, Vol. II. (_second series._)]