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style="display:none;speak:none"><span id="ws-article-id">1201738</span><span id="wd-article-id">Q41284</span><span id="ws-name" class="fn">John Dalton</span><span class="n"><span class="given-name">John</span><span class="family-name">Dalton</span></span><span id="ws-commons">John Dalton</span><span id="ws-description" class="note">English chemist, meteorologist and physicist</span></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Author:John_Dalton_(1766-1844)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Meteorological observations and essays</i> (1793) <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r12685850">.mw-parser-output .wst-ext-scan-links{font-size:83%}</style><span class="wst-ext-scan-links">(<span class="wst-ext-scan-link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/meteorologicalob00dalt">external scan</a></span>)</span> (1834 ed.)</li> <li><i>Elements of English Grammar</i> (1801)</li> <li><i>A New System of Chemical Philosophy</i> (1808) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/newsystemofchemi11dalt">part 1 vol 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/newsystemofchemi12dalt">part 2 vol 1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/newsystemofchemi21dalt">part 1 vol 2</a></li> <li><i>Memoir on sulphuric ether</i> (1820) (short work) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r12685850"><span class="wst-ext-scan-links">(<span class="wst-ext-scan-link"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/39002011123032.med.yale.edu">external scan</a></span>)</span></li> <li><i>The book of philosophical experiments</i> (1839) <link 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title="Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886">Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Author:Joseph_Foster" title="Author:Joseph Foster">Joseph Foster</a>, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.</span></li> <li><span class="ws-authlink">"<a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Dalton,_John_(1766-1844)" title="Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dalton, John (1766-1844)">Dalton, John (1766-1844)</a>," in <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900" title="Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900">Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900</a></i>, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 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