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

By Russell McCormmach and Henry Cavendish

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195160045
• ISBN13: 9780195160048
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"