A new system of chemical philosophy
John Dalton's 1808 treatise A New System of Chemical Philosophy, printed in Manchester and sold in London, lays out his atomic theory for chemists and natural philosophers. The plates are plain copperplate diagrams: rows of circles packed into rhombs, triangles of touching spheres, clustered ball arrangements forming branching shapes, and a graph beside a thermometer and apparatus. A designer might take the simple geometric repetition of spheres and the clean line-engraved diagram style for diagrams or patterns.
