Editing 1808 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* [[Barium]], [[calcium]], [[magnesium]], and [[strontium]] isolated by [[Humphry Davy]].
* [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]] formulates the [[law of combining volumes]] for gases.<ref name=JLGL>{{cite web |title=December 6 Births |work=Today in Science History |publisher=Today in Science History |year=2007 |url=http://www.todayinsci.com/12/12_06.htm |accessdate=2007-03-12}}</ref>
* [[John Dalton]] begins publication of ''A New System of Chemical Philosophy'', explaining his atomic theory of chemistry and including a list of [[atomic weight]]s.<ref name="CHF">{{Cite web |title=John Dalton |website=Science History Institute |date=June 2016 |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/john-dalton |access-date=20 March 2018}}</ref><ref name=Bowden>{{cite book|last1=Bowden|first1=Mary Ellen|title=Chemical achievers : the human face of the chemical sciences|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/chemicalachiever0000bowd/page/48|chapter-url-access=registration|date=1997|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|isbn=9780941901123|chapter=John Dalton|pages=[https://archive.org/details/chemicalachiever0000bowd/page/48 48-51,53]}}</ref>
* [[Jöns Jakob Berzelius]] publishes ''Lärbok i Kemien'' in which he proposes modern [[chemical symbols]] and notation, and of the concept of relative [[atomic weight]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jöns Jakob Berzelius|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/j%C3%B6ns-jakob-berzelius|website=Science History Institute|accessdate=20 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bowden|first1=Mary Ellen|title=Chemical achievers : the human face of the chemical sciences|url=https://archive.org/details/chemicalachiever0000bowd|url-access=registration|date=1997|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|isbn=9780941901123|chapter=Jöns Jakob Berzelius|pages=[https://archive.org/details/chemicalachiever0000bowd/page/26 26-28]}}</ref>