Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical ScienceOxford University Press, 2004 M03 18 - 272 páginas 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. |
Contenido
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Theories | 49 |
Historical Setting of Heat and Mechanics | 81 |
Henry Cavendishs Researches | 95 |
The Mechanical Theory Of Heat | 121 |
The Question | 131 |
EDITORIAL NOTE | 151 |
PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF THE MANUSCRIPT | 153 |
FOUL COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT | 154 |
REVISED COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT | 176 |
ENDNOTES FOR PREFACE INTRODUCTION AND PART ONE | 195 |
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Página 4 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 17 - ... only in a greater largeness of comprehension, whereby analogies, harmonies, and agreements are discovered in the works of nature, and the particular effects explained, that is reduced to general rules (see Sect.
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