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1) Speculative truth: Henry Cavendish, natural philosophy, and the rise of modern theoretical science
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"Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science consists of two major parts. In the first, Russell McCormmach writes a detailed biography and commentary on Lord Henry Cavendish, the pioneering British physicist active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who, in the modern sense, is widely considered the first full-time scientist. The second is the inaugural full text publication...
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"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...