Cavendish

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Cavendish is written by Christa Jungnickel and published by American Philosophical Society. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0871692201 (ISBN 10) and 9780871692207 (ISBN 13).

"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--Book jacket