Author: McCormmach, Russell
Title: Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2004). orig.boards. 24x15cm, viii,258 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Natural Philosophy; Natural Philosophers; Philosophies; Theories;A Great Question; Historical Setting of Heat and Mechanics; Henry Cavendish's Researches; The Mechanical Theory of Heat; The Question; Appendix. Henry Cavendish's Manuscript on the Mechanical Theory of Heat. ["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" - Publisher's description]

Keywords: History of Science, Henry Cavendish, British Physicists, Great Britain, Physics, Heat, Chemists, Chemistry, Biography