| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Natural philosophy -- A great question -- Henry Cavendish's manuscript on the mechanical theory of heat. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810.
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Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810. |
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Heat -- History -- 18th century.
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Heat. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Physics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Physics. |
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Great Britain. |
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Chemists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Chemists. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McCormmach, Russell. Speculative truth. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004 0195160045 (DLC) 2002156309 (OCoLC)51330512 |
| ISBN |
9780195347807 (electronic book) |
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0195347803 (electronic book) |
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0195186532 (electronic book) |
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9780195186536 (electronic book) |
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9780195160048 (acid-free paper) |
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0195160045 (acid-free paper) |
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1280503092 |
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9781280503092 |
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9781602569225 |
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1602569223 |
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