CHAPTER VIII

.--THEORY OF DEFINITE, RECIPROCAL, AND MULTIPLE

PROPORTIONS.

_Sect._ 1. Prelude to the Atomic Theory, and its Publication by Dalton. 285 _Sect._ 2. Reception and Confirmation of the Atomic Theory. 288 _Sect._ 3. The Theory of Volumes.--Gay-Lussac. 290

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