Excerpt from The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S, Vol. 2: Chemical and DynamicalCavendish continued to make observations on magnetic dip and declination for nearly 40 years. And accumulated a considerable mass of material. This has been thoroughly sifted and discussed by Dr Chree; thus his summary of the results constitutes an important contribution to the magnetic history of the Earth, and its known close relation to the solar cycles, during the last third of the eighteenth century for which our information is so scanty and uncertain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Cavendish, Henry

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<p>Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was an English scientist whose published work was mostly concerned with electricity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. Cavendish was a prolific scientific investigator, performing experiments on not only electricity but also magnetism, thermometry, gases, heat potential and the chemical composition of water. Although he published some of his research, including his discovery of hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879, when James Clerk Maxwell published a collection of Cavendish's electrical experiments. These papers showed that Cavendish had discovered many important electrical concepts which had since been credited to other researchers, including the concept of electric potential. First published in 1921, these volumes are a collection of Cavendish's results from his many experiments. Volume 1 is a revised edition of James Clerk Maxwell's 1879 volume Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish, also reissued in this series.</p>

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S: Volume 1, the Electrical Researches: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences)

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<p>Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was an English scientist whose published work was mostly concerned with electricity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. Cavendish was a prolific scientific investigator, performing experiments on not only electricity but also magnetism, thermometry, gases, heat potential and the chemical composition of water. Although he published some of his research, including his discovery of hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879, when James Clerk Maxwell published a collection of Cavendish's electrical experiments. These papers showed that Cavendish had discovered many important electrical concepts which had since been credited to other researchers, including the concept of electric potential. First published in 1921, these volumes are a collection of Cavendish's results from his many experiments. Volume 2 contains previously unpublished papers showing the results of Cavendish's chemical, magnetic and thermometry experiments.</p>

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S: Volume 2: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences)

The Laws of Gravitation: Memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish, Together With Abstracts of Other Important Memoirs

NEWTON, ISAAC

MacKenzie, Arthur Stanley

Astronomy & Space Science

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The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish; Edited by J. Clerk Maxwell

Maxwell, James Clerk

History

Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), the grandson of the second duke of Devonshire, wrote papers on electrical topics for the Royal Society, but the majority of his electrical experiments did not become known until they were collected and published by James Clerk Maxwell a century later, in 1879, long after other scientists had been credited with the same results. Among Cavendish's discoveries were the concept of electric potential, which he called the 'degree of electrification'; an early unit of capacitance, that of a sphere one inch in diameter; the formula for the capacitance of a plate capacitor; the concept of the dielectric constant of a material; the relationship between electric potential and current, now called Ohm's Law; laws for the division of current in parallel circuits, now attributed to Charles Wheatstone; and the inverse square law of variation of electric force with distance, now called Coulomb's Law.

Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish (Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences)

Cambridge University Press

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S (Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences)

Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was an English scientist whose published work was mostly concerned with electricity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. Cavendish was a prolific scientific investigator, performing experiments on not only electricity but also magnetism, thermometry, gases, heat potential and the chemical composition of water. Although he published some of his research, including his discovery of hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879, when James Clerk Maxwell published a collection of Cavendish's electrical experiments. These papers showed that Cavendish had discovered many important electrical concepts which had since been credited to other researchers, including the concept of electric potential. First published in 1921, these volumes are a collection of Cavendish's results from his many experiments. Volume 2 contains previously unpublished papers showing the results of Cavendish's chemical, magnetic and thermometry experiments.

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S. 2 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences)

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