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
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
6.6
MB