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
- Three papers, containing Experiments on Factitious Air
- Experiments on Rathbone-Place Water
- An Account of the Meteorological Instruments used at the Royal Society's House
- An Account of a new Eudiometer
- Observations on Mr Hutchins's Experiments for determining the Degree of Cold at which Quicksilver freezes
- Experiments on Air
- Answer to Mr Kirwan's Remarks upon the Experiments on Air
- Experiments on Air
- An Account of Experiments made by Mr John McNab, at Henley House, Hudson's Bay, relating to freezing Mixtures
- An Account of Experiments made by Mr John McNab, at Albany Fort, Hudson's Bay, relative to the Freezing of Nitrous and Vitriolic Acids
- On the Conversion of a Mixture of dephlogisticated and phlogisticated Air into nitrous Acid
- On the Height of the Luminous Arch which was seen on Feb. 23, 1784
- On the Civil Year of the Hindoos, and its Divisions; with an Account of three Hindoo Almanacs belonging to Charles Wilkins, Esq
- Extract of a Letter from Henry Cavendish, Esq. to M. Mendoza y Rios, January, 1795
- Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth
- On an Improvement in the Manner of dividing astronomical Instruments
- UNPUBLISHED PAPERS FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., LL.D., F.R.S. With explanatory notes by the Editor
- Index
- Plate section
On the Civil Year of the Hindoos, and its Divisions; with an Account of three Hindoo Almanacs belonging to Charles Wilkins, Esq
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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
- Three papers, containing Experiments on Factitious Air
- Experiments on Rathbone-Place Water
- An Account of the Meteorological Instruments used at the Royal Society's House
- An Account of a new Eudiometer
- Observations on Mr Hutchins's Experiments for determining the Degree of Cold at which Quicksilver freezes
- Experiments on Air
- Answer to Mr Kirwan's Remarks upon the Experiments on Air
- Experiments on Air
- An Account of Experiments made by Mr John McNab, at Henley House, Hudson's Bay, relating to freezing Mixtures
- An Account of Experiments made by Mr John McNab, at Albany Fort, Hudson's Bay, relative to the Freezing of Nitrous and Vitriolic Acids
- On the Conversion of a Mixture of dephlogisticated and phlogisticated Air into nitrous Acid
- On the Height of the Luminous Arch which was seen on Feb. 23, 1784
- On the Civil Year of the Hindoos, and its Divisions; with an Account of three Hindoo Almanacs belonging to Charles Wilkins, Esq
- Extract of a Letter from Henry Cavendish, Esq. to M. Mendoza y Rios, January, 1795
- Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth
- On an Improvement in the Manner of dividing astronomical Instruments
- 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
- Index
- Plate section
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- The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S , pp. 236 - 245Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1921