Download or read book The Personality of Henry Cavendish A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities written by Russell McCormmach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science. In these chapters we are introduced to the psychology of science and of scientists and we learn about Cavendish’s life and times. His personality is examined from two perspectives: one is that he had a less severe form of autism, as has been claimed; the other is that he was eccentric and a psychological disorder was absent. Henry Cavendish lived a life of science, possibly more completely than any other figure in the history of science: a wealthy aristocrat, he became a dedicated scientist. This study brings new information and a new perspective to our understanding of the man. The scientific and non-scientific sides of his life are brought closer together, as the author traces topics including his appearance, speech, wealth, religion and death as well as Cavendish’s life of natural philosophy where objectivity and accuracy, writing and recognition all played a part. The author traces aspects of Cavendish’s personality, views and interpretations of him, and explores notions of eccentricity and autism before detailing relevant aspects of the travels made by our subject. The author considers the question “How do we talk about Cavendish?” and provides a useful summary of Cavendish’s travels. This book will appeal to a wide audience, from those interested in 18th century history or history of science, to those interested in incidences of autism in prominent figures from history. This volume contains ample relevant illustrations, several interesting appendices and it includes a useful index and bibliography.
Download or read book Cavendish written by Christa Jungnickel and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish written by Henry Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Speculative Truth written by Russell McCormmach and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a contribution to a growing body of scholarship on natural philosophy and an analysis of theoretical research, Speculative Truth yields a fascinating view and discourse on the rise of scientific attitudes and ways of knowing - virtually the birth of modern science."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish F R S written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was an English scientist whose published work was mostly concerned with electricity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. Cavendish was a prolific scientific investigator, performing experiments on not only electricity but also magnetism, thermometry, gases, heat potential and the chemical composition of water. Although he published some of his research, including his discovery of hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879, when James Clerk Maxwell published a collection of Cavendish's electrical experiments. These papers showed that Cavendish had discovered many important electrical concepts which had since been credited to other researchers, including the concept of electric potential. First published in 1921, these volumes are a collection of Cavendish's results from his many experiments. Volume 2 contains previously unpublished papers showing the results of Cavendish's chemical, magnetic and thermometry experiments.
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Download or read book The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish F R S written by Sir Henry Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition of Cavendish's groundbreaking electrical research.
Download or read book Henry Cavendish and the Discovery of Hydrogen written by Josepha Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strange little man was unnaturally shy. He couldn't stand looking anyone in the face. He was unable to bear meeting more than one person at a time, and ran away if too many people came near him. When he had to go out, he sat in the shadows of his carriage so that no one could see him. He wore the same old-fashioned outfit day after day. And he never, ever spoke to a woman. And yet Henry Cavendish was also a brilliant man who made one of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century-hydrogen, among other things. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish F R S written by Henry Cavendish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was an English scientist whose published work was mostly concerned with electricity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. Cavendish was a prolific scientific investigator, performing experiments on not only electricity but also magnetism, thermometry, gases, heat potential and the chemical composition of water. Although he published some of his research, including his discovery of hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879, when James Clerk Maxwell published a collection of Cavendish's electrical experiments. These papers showed that Cavendish had discovered many important electrical concepts which had since been credited to other researchers, including the concept of electric potential. First published in 1921, these volumes are a collection of Cavendish's results from his many experiments. Volume 1 is a revised edition of James Clerk Maxwell's 1879 volume Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish, also reissued in this series.
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Download or read book The Life Of Henry Cavendish Including Abstracts of His More Important Scientific Papers and a Critical Inquiry Into the Claims of All the Alleged Discoverers of the Composition of Water by George Wilson written by Henry Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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