Meteorological observations and essays / By John Dalton.

  • Dalton, John, 1766-1844.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Meteorological observations and essays / By John Dalton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1793. WHEN I first adopted the resolution to offer the public, in this manner, the result of my meteorological observations, which was about twelve months ago, my principal design was, to explain the nature of the different instru- ments used in meteorology, particularly the barometer and thermometer. As the number of these is increasing daily, many of them must fall into’ hands that are much unacquainted with their principles, and may therefore not profit by them in so great a degree as other- wise ; for which reason, a short and clear explanation, with a series of observations serv- ing further to illustrate and exemplify the prin- ciples, and a few practical rules for judging of the weather, deduced from experience, seemed to me to promise utility ; whilst the observa- b