Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Number Of Pages: 272
• Publication Date: 2004-02-20
• Sales Rank: 1505244
• ISBN / ASIN: 0195160045
• EAN: 9780195160048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
• Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
• Book 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.

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