Speculative Truth
Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science
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Publisher Description
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.
GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2004
18 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Oxford University Press
PROVIDER INFO
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholar s of the University of Oxford tradi ng as Oxford University Press
SIZE
6.6
MB