Cavendish: The Experimental Life
Two gifted eighteenth-century Londoners, Charles Cavendish and his painfully preeminent son Henry were descendants of paired revolutions, one political and one scientific. Scions of a powerful revolutionary family, they gave an original turn to the duty of public service that attached to their socia...
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Main Author: | Christa Jungnickel (auth) |
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Other Authors: | Russell McCormmach (auth) |
Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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2016
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Series: | Studies 7: Max Planck Research Library in the History and Development of Knowledge
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