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Cavendish : the experimental life / by Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach.
Author
Jungnickel, Christa
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Language
English
Εdition
[Rev. ed.].
Published/Created
[Lewisburg, Pa.] : Bucknell, 1999.
Description
xvi, 814 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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QD22.C4 J864 1999
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Chemists
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Politicians
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Great Britain
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Biography
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Fathers and sons
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Great Britain
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Politics, Practical
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Chemistry
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Cavendish, Henry 1731-1810
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Cavendish, Charles Lord 1704-1783
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McCormmach, Russell
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Biographies
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Biographies
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collective biographies
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Series
Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 220.
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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.
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ISBN
0838754457 ((hardcover))
9780838754450 ((hardcover))
LCCN
99060985
OCLC
41655294
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