Due to John Dalton’s interest in weather and the atmosphere, it led him in to his research about the nature of gasses and that …show more content…
After that the orange, yellow, and green seem one color which descends pretty uniformly from an intense to a rare yellow, making what I should call different shades of yellow.” – John Dalton. In 1794, John Dalton published the very first paper on colorblindness called “Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colors.” Included in the paper, he wrote about his own experience with the disease. Dalton’s theory regarding colorblindness was incorrect, although, he was correct that colorblindness was hereditary. Dalton believed that the shortage is color perception was due to the discoloration of a liquid medium called aqueous humour. He believed that because of the blueish aqueous humour it filtered out all of the other colors. Among his death, he had an autopsy done of his eyes and there was no found bluish liquid, proving his belief …show more content…
After he told the world about relative weights at Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, he was invited to the Royal Institution of London to recreate his announcement. Dalton’s atomic theory started to receive a lot of publicity and debate after the word was out. Scientist either immediately accepted or they remained skeptics for years to come. Davy was among one of the skeptics who did not want to accept that Dalton was right, eventually after many experimental tests the work was confirmed and about 50 years later Davy accepted that Dalton was correct. From 1817 until his death, John Dalton was elected as president of Manchester Literary and Philosophical society. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal for his atomic theory in