The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S

Henry Cavendish

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Volume 2
Henry Cavendish
Edited by Sir Edward Thorpe

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2015
Print publication year:: 2011
First published in:: 1921
Online ISBN:: 9780511722424
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511722424

Subjects:: History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Engineering: General Interest, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, General Science
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences

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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 Although he published some of his research, including his discovery of hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879, when James Clerk Maxwell published a collection of Cavendish's electrical experiments.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 Volume 2 contains previously unpublished papers showing the results of Cavendish's chemical, magnetic and thermometry experiments.

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Frontmatter
pp i-i

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
pp ii-ii

Frontispiece
pp iii-iii

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
pp iv-iv

Preface
pp v-ix

Contents
pp x-xii

List Of Plates
pp xii-xii

INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR
pp 1-74

REPRINT OF PAPERS COMMUNICATED BY CAVENDISH TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND PUBLISHED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
pp 75-76

Three papers, containing Experiments on Factitious Air
pp 77-101

Experiments on Rathbone-Place Water
pp 102-111

An Account of the Meteorological Instruments used at the Royal Society's House
pp 112-126

An Account of a new Eudiometer
pp 127-144

Observations on Mr Hutchins's Experiments for determining the Degree of Cold at which Quicksilver freezes
pp 145-160

Experiments on Air
pp 161-181

Answer to Mr Kirwan's Remarks upon the Experiments on Air
pp 182-186

Experiments on Air
pp 187-194

An Account of Experiments made by Mr John McNab, at Henley House, Hudson's Bay, relating to freezing Mixtures
pp 195-213

An Account of Experiments made by Mr John McNab, at Albany Fort, Hudson's Bay, relative to the Freezing of Nitrous and Vitriolic Acids
pp 214-223

On the Conversion of a Mixture of dephlogisticated and phlogisticated Air into nitrous Acid
pp 224-232

On the Height of the Luminous Arch which was seen on Feb. 23, 1784
pp 233-235

On the Civil Year of the Hindoos, and its Divisions; with an Account of three Hindoo Almanacs belonging to Charles Wilkins, Esq
pp 236-245

Extract of a Letter from Henry Cavendish, Esq. to M. Mendoza y Rios, January, 1795
pp 246-248

Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth
pp 249-286

On an Improvement in the Manner of dividing astronomical Instruments
pp 287-294

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
pp 295-296

General account of the manuscripts
pp 297-298

Experiments on Arsenic
pp 298-301

Experiments on Tartar
pp 301-304

On the Solution of Metals in acids
pp 305-307

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