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Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science

By Russell McCormmach

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2004
ISBN
0195160045
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3787556 bytes)
Edition
First Edition and First Printing
Pages
269\269
Topic
Physics
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36
Физика;История физики

Description

With a never-before published paper by Lord Henry Cavendish, as well as a biography on him, this book offers a fascinating discourse on the rise of scientific attitudes and ways of knowing. A pioneering British physicist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Cavendish was widely considered to be the first full-time scientist in the modern sense. Through the lens of this unique thinker and writer, this book is about the birth of modern science.

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