![]() ![]() I discovered last summer with certainty, that colours appear different to me to what they do to others. "I am at present engaged in a very curious investigation. A curious investigationīy the time he arrived in Manchester, Dalton had begun to realise that he saw the world differently from most other people, as he wrote in a letter to Elihu Robinson: He was keen to pursue further atmospheric and weather research at an academic institution, but as a Quaker was barred from most British universities at the time, so his mentor Gough pulled a few strings and got him a place as a tutor at Manchester College. In 1793, Dalton published his first scientific paper: 'Meteorological Observations and Essays'. Both these men inspired in Dalton an avid interest in meteorology that lasted for the rest of his life. At the age of just 12 he joined his older brother in running a local Quaker school, where he remained as a teacher for over a decade.ĭalton had two influential mentors during this time: Elihu Robinson, a rich intellectual with an interest in mathematics and science and John Gough, a blind classics scholar and natural and experimental philosopher. While he received little formal education, his sharp mind and natural sense of curiosity compensated for a lack of early schooling. ![]() John Dalton was born in 1766, to a modest Quaker family from the Lake District in Cumbria. ![]()
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