Saturday, 9 September 2017
John Dalton's house at Eaglesfield
John Dalton's childhood home at Eaglesfield near Cockermouth is one of the secrets of the Lake District. It is now on the John Dalton Way - a walk that takes you from Cockermouth down to Sellafield where John Dalton's work on atoms has been applied industrially. I was interested to note that he was credited with recognising colour blindness because I saw a programme recently on James Clerk Maxwell which said he'd found out why colour blindness happens. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Projects/Johnson/Chapters/Ch4_2.html You can see over into Scotland from Eaglesfield, almost to near where Maxwell lived.