Henry Cavendish Chemist, Physicist (10-Oct-1731 24-Feb-1810) SUBJECT OF BOOKS
Arthur John Berry. Henry Cavendish: His Life and Scientific Work. Hutchinson. 1960. 208pp. Christa Jungnickel; Russell McCormmach. Cavendish. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 1996. 414pp. Russell McCormmach. Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science. Oxford University Press. 2004. 258pp. David Philip Miller. Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish, and the Nineteenth Century "Water Controversy". Ashgate Publishing. 2003. 316pp. George Wilson. The Life of the Hon. 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. Cavendish Society. 1851. 478pp.
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