Cavendish The Experimental Life |
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| Author:
| Jungnickel, Christa
McCormmach, Russell |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61148-120-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1999 |
| Publisher: | Bucknell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $116.00 |
Book Description:
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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 reevalution of the person of Henry Cavendish, and the first, and complete, edition of Henry Cavendish's scientific letters.
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.