Concept
History of atomic theory
Overview
history of scientific theory that views matter as made up of atoms of chemical elements
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Another striking instance is afforded by Dalton’s generalization, commonly known as the atomic theory. It had been known from the very commencement of accurate chemical observation, that any two bodies combine chemically with one another in only a certain number of proportions; but those proportions were in each case…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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It was supposed, until radio-activity was discovered, that atoms were indestructible and unchangeable. Substances which were not compounds were called “elements”. The Russian chemist Mendeleev discovered that the elements can be arranged in a series by means of progressive changes in their properties; in his time, there were gaps in this series, but most of them have since been…
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
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German physicists for some time accepted this pure dynamic. But in spite of this, the majority of these physicists i n modern times have found it more convenient to return to the Atomic point of view, and in spite of the warnings of Kästner, one of their number, have begun to regard Matter as consisting of infinitesimally small particles, termed 'atoms'--which atoms have then to be brought into relation with one…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what History of atomic theory is.
Philosophers who discussed History of atomic theory
Related ideas
- Luminiferous aether
- Matter
- Atomic nucleus
- Niels Bohr
- Oxygen
- Periodic table
- Statistical mechanics
- Positivism
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Thermodynamics
- Lord Kelvin
- Wave–particle duality
- University of Glasgow
- John Dalton
- Louis de Broglie
- Robert Boyle
- Calculus
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Ernst Mach
- Max Born
- Albert Einstein
- McGill University
- Atom
Place in the tradition
Part of Atomism.