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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 widelyconsidered 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.McCormmach, Russell is the author of 'Speculative Truth : Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science', published 2006 under ISBN 9780756799519 and ISBN 0756799511.
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