Cavendish : the experimental life / by Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach.

Author
Jungnickel, Christa [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
[Rev. ed.].
Published/​Created
[Lewisburg, Pa.] : Bucknell, 1999.
Description
xvi, 814 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Rare books genre
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    Series
    Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 220. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "This biography is an extensive revision of the authors' earlier Cavendish. Based upon new archival and secondary sources, it offers an enlarged understanding of the eighteenth-century world of science, a reevaluation of the person of Henry Cavendish, and the first, and complete, edition of Henry Cavendish's scientific letters." "The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--Jacket.
    Notes
    "This book is a revision of 'Cavendish', published in 1996. Part 4 ... is entirely new, an edition of Henry Cavendish's scientific letters."--p. xv.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [747]-790) and indexes.
    Contents
    • pt. 1. Lord Charles Cavendish
    • pt. 2. The Honorable Henry & Lord Charles Cavendish
    • pt. 3. Henry Cavendish
    • pt. 4. Henry Cavendish's scientific letters
    • Appendix 1. Family trees
    • Appendix 2. Henry Cavendish's chronology and publications
    • Appendix 3. Officers of the Royal Society.
    ISBN
    • 0838754457 ((hardcover))
    • 9780838754450 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    99060985
    OCLC
    41655294
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