Answer is: John Dalton proposed that matter is made of tiny particles.
Proust's law or law of constant composition said that a given chemical compound always contains its component elements in fixed ratio and does not depend on method of preparation.
Water (Hâ‚‚O) is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom:
m(H) : m(O) = 2·1 : 16 = 1: 8.
Dalton said that matter is composed of atoms and atoms of different elements can join to form chemical compound.