High altitudes in the United States : U. S. Geological Survey Press Bulletin No. 457, October, 1920

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1920
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 190
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(20)90868-2

✦ Synopsis

were, as was the custom at that time, good classical scholars and, therefore, familiar at first hand with the early Greek philosophers, who, as is pointed out in our histories of chemistry, suggested a theory of the composition of matter which is singularly like that dominant to-day.

Meldrum's essay "The Development of the Atomic Theory " is interesting throughout.

H. L.