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was born in a small thatched cottage in Eaglesfield, Cumberland on September 5,1766. He had a seven year old brother and a 2 year old sister. John was a Quaker and recieved utilitarian education at the nearest Quaker school. This was quite a feat since, at tha ....

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.... Observations and Essays. In it he said that each gas exists and acts independently and purely physically, rather than chemically. Meaning, that gases act according to mechanical repulsion rather than chemical attraction. As a chemistry tutor, John taught from Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry. After six years John resigned to conduct private research supported by tutoring. In 1802, in his essay entitled "Experimental Essays on the Constitution of Mixed Gases; on the Force of Steam or Vapor from water and other liquids in different temperatures, both in a Torricellian vacuum and in air; on Evaporation; and on the Expansion of Gasses by Heat," John st ....