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Overview
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 reevalution of the person of Henry Cavendish, and the first, and complete, edition of Henry Cavendish's scientific letters.
Synopsis
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 reevalution of the person of Henry Cavendish, and the first, and complete, edition of Henry Cavendish's scientific letters.Editorials
From the Publisher
Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach's Cavendish: The Experimental Life has been selected by Choice as one of their Outstanding Academic Books for the year 2000. Choice is the official review publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association. The official announcement appeared in the January 2001 issue. Only about 10 percent of the books reviewed are chosen for this honor.John Gascoigne
In this lebgthy work, the authors clearly and systematically describe Cavendish's scientific achievements as well as providing a portrait of the élite world in which he and his father developed their scientific interests.—Nature
Book Details
Published
August 1, 1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Pages
814
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781611481204