Book contents
- Frontmatter
- The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
- Frontispiece
- The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
- Preface
- Contents
- List Of Plates
- INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR
- REPRINT OF PAPERS COMMUNICATED BY CAVENDISH TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND PUBLISHED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
- UNPUBLISHED PAPERS FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., LL.D., F.R.S. With explanatory notes by the Editor
- General account of the manuscripts
- Experiments on Arsenic
- Experiments on Tartar
- On the Solution of Metals in acids
- Experiments on Factitious Air. Part iv
- The Laboratory notes of “Experiments on Air”
- Cavendish on Chemical Nomenclature
- Cavendish's Papers on Heat: Experiments on Specific and Latent Heat of Liquids, Solids and Air
- Experiments to show that bodies in changing from a solid state to a fluid state produce cold and in changing from a fluid to a solid state produce heat
- Boiling Point of Water
- Theory of Boiling
- Tension of Aqueous Vapour
- Compressibility of Air
- Expansion of Air
- Experiment proposed for Determining the degree of Cold at which begins to freeze
- Cold produced by Rarefaction of Air
- Heat and Cold by Condensation and Rarefaction of Air
- To try whether Damp Air is of the same Spec. Grav. as Dry Air
- To see whether Bulk of perfectly Dry Air is increased by saturating with Moisture in ratio of Depression as that Heat by Water to Pressure of Atmosphere on it
- Instructions to the Clerk of the Royal Society concerning the Meteorological Observations to be made on behalf of the Society at the Society's House in Crane Court
- On Atmospheric Refraction
- The Refraction on a Mountain Slope. (Note by Sir Joseph Larmor.)
- Meteorological Observations at Madras (extract from a letter by Cavendish)
- Cavendish's Registering Thermometer
- CAVENDISH'S MATHEMATICAL AND DYNAMICAL MANUSCRIPTS. By Sir Joseph Larmor, M.P., F.R.S
- CAVENDISH AS A GEOLOGIST. By Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S
- CAVENDISH'S ASTRONOMICAL MANUSCRIPTS. By Sir Frank W. Dyson, F.R.S., Astronomer Royal
- CAVENDISH'S MAGNETIC WORK. By Dr Charles Chree, F.R.S., Kew Observatory
- Index
- Plate section
Experiments to show that bodies in changing from a solid state to a fluid state produce cold and in changing from a fluid to a solid state produce heat
from UNPUBLISHED PAPERS FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., LL.D., F.R.S. With explanatory notes by the Editor
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
- Frontispiece
- The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
- Preface
- Contents
- List Of Plates
- INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR
- REPRINT OF PAPERS COMMUNICATED BY CAVENDISH TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND PUBLISHED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
- UNPUBLISHED PAPERS FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., LL.D., F.R.S. With explanatory notes by the Editor
- General account of the manuscripts
- Experiments on Arsenic
- Experiments on Tartar
- On the Solution of Metals in acids
- Experiments on Factitious Air. Part iv
- The Laboratory notes of “Experiments on Air”
- Cavendish on Chemical Nomenclature
- Cavendish's Papers on Heat: Experiments on Specific and Latent Heat of Liquids, Solids and Air
- Experiments to show that bodies in changing from a solid state to a fluid state produce cold and in changing from a fluid to a solid state produce heat
- Boiling Point of Water
- Theory of Boiling
- Tension of Aqueous Vapour
- Compressibility of Air
- Expansion of Air
- Experiment proposed for Determining the degree of Cold at which begins to freeze
- Cold produced by Rarefaction of Air
- Heat and Cold by Condensation and Rarefaction of Air
- To try whether Damp Air is of the same Spec. Grav. as Dry Air
- To see whether Bulk of perfectly Dry Air is increased by saturating with Moisture in ratio of Depression as that Heat by Water to Pressure of Atmosphere on it
- Instructions to the Clerk of the Royal Society concerning the Meteorological Observations to be made on behalf of the Society at the Society's House in Crane Court
- On Atmospheric Refraction
- The Refraction on a Mountain Slope. (Note by Sir Joseph Larmor.)
- Meteorological Observations at Madras (extract from a letter by Cavendish)
- Cavendish's Registering Thermometer
- CAVENDISH'S MATHEMATICAL AND DYNAMICAL MANUSCRIPTS. By Sir Joseph Larmor, M.P., F.R.S
- CAVENDISH AS A GEOLOGIST. By Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S
- CAVENDISH'S ASTRONOMICAL MANUSCRIPTS. By Sir Frank W. Dyson, F.R.S., Astronomer Royal
- CAVENDISH'S MAGNETIC WORK. By Dr Charles Chree, F.R.S., Kew Observatory
- Index
- Plate section
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- The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S , pp. 348 - 351Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1921