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diff --git a/76795-0.txt b/76795-0.txt index df1facc..b818740 100644 --- a/76795-0.txt +++ b/76795-0.txt @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ to Glaubus of Rhegion, a contemporary) had also Pythagoreans for teachers, including the astronomer, geometrician and physician, Philolaus, who was exiled from Italy in the first half of the fifth century B. C. because of his membership in the Pythagorean Order. -Burnet, thinks that this accounts not only for Democritus’ geometrical +Burnet thinks that this accounts not only for Democritus’ geometrical knowledge but also “for other features of his system.” @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ concluded that these invisible particles never subdivide in taking part in chemical changes, and that all atoms of any one element must be alike. But the atoms of the different elements vary in weight, form and combining power. He established the rule, already assumed by William -Higgins (1789), that different atoms tend to combine in the porportion +Higgins (1789), that different atoms tend to combine in the proportion of atom to atom. When a compound was composed of two elements only, it was presumed to |