Cavendish: The Experimental LifeBucknell University Press, 1999 - 814 pàgines "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Kent | 21 |
Devonshire | 24 |
Politics | 35 |
House of Commons | 42 |
Gentleman of the Bedchamber | 48 |
Science De Moivre Circle | 51 |
Bedford Square | 314 |
Library | 319 |
Clapham Common | 324 |
Land Developer | 331 |
Politics | 335 |
Nation | 352 |
Air and Water | 355 |
Water | 362 |
Royal Society | 57 |
Family and Friends | 63 |
Family of the Greys | 70 |
Great Marlborough Street | 71 |
Friends and Colleagues | 76 |
Sorrows and Riches | 86 |
Public Activities | 97 |
Scientific Administration | 110 |
Science | 118 |
Education of Henry Cavendish | 131 |
Peterhouse Cambridge | 134 |
Learning Science | 141 |
Giardini Academy | 160 |
Science | 165 |
Introduction to Scientific Society | 166 |
Science at the Royal Society | 169 |
Early Researches | 191 |
Arsenic | 195 |
Factitious Air | 202 |
Workplace | 210 |
Tools of Science | 219 |
Mathematics | 224 |
Theory | 228 |
Electricity | 237 |
Conduction | 244 |
The Work | 249 |
Learned Organizations | 253 |
British Museum | 266 |
Society of Antiquaries | 268 |
Man of Property | 273 |
Landlord | 276 |
Death of Lord Charles Cavendish | 284 |
1 Person | 291 |
Monday Club | 298 |
Man without Affections | 303 |
Places | 311 |
Nitrous Acid | 366 |
Atmosphere | 368 |
New Chemistry | 370 |
Water Controversy | 377 |
Keeping Up with Chemistry | 380 |
Exactitiude | 382 |
Mercury | 393 |
Heat | 400 |
The Natural Philosopher | 418 |
Earth | 425 |
Entire GLobe | 436 |
Weighing the World | 440 |
The Cavendish Experiment | 451 |
Last Years | 461 |
The Duchess and the Philosoher | 467 |
Published Work | 470 |
Coinage of the Realm | 474 |
Royal Institution | 479 |
Institute of France | 485 |
Daily Life | 486 |
Wealth | 488 |
The ENd | 493 |
Cavendish | 509 |
Introduction | 517 |
Editorial Note | 521 |
List of Letters | 523 |
Letters | 529 |
Permissions | 733 |
Cavendish | 736 |
Grey | 737 |
Henry Cavendishs Chronology and Publications | 739 |
Officers of the Royal Society | 743 |
List of Abbreviations | 745 |
Bibliography | 747 |
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