applications of science and inventions

Royal Society

• 1
• 2
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Society of Arts

• 1
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industry

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aristocracy

ascendancy

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conditions of life

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duty of service

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industry

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landed power

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politics

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science

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astronomy

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and classics

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British Museum, (Figs. 5.3–5.4, 99–100)

• 1
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Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3

founding

• 1
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• 3
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standing committee

• 1
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trustees

• 1
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Cambridge University

Cavendish Physical Laboratory

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Newton’s influence

• 1
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Peterhouse, (Fig. 6.2, 126)

• 1
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Revolution of 1688–89

• 1

Scientific Revolution

• 1

examinations

• 1
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fellows, tutors, lecturers

• 1
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mathematics and physical science

• 1
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professors of mathematics and science

• 1
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scientists

• 1
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students

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Cavendish Society

• 1

chemistry

• 1
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accuracy

• 1

acids

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affinities

• 1
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• 3
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affinity tables

• 1
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analytical

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anti-phlogistic chemistry, Chemical Revolution

• 1
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arsenic

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as a science

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as part of natural philosophy

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atomic theory

• 1
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attraction, repulsion of particles

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calcination

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caloric

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calorimetry

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combustion

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common air

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definite and multiple proportions

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dephlogisticated air

• 1
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elements

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equivalent weights and standards

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eudiometer

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experimental techniques

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factitious air

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fixed air

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gaseous state

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heat in chemical changes

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inflammable air

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instruments, (Figs. 8.1–8.2, 172)

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laboratory

• 1
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matter, quantity of

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mineral water

• 1
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neutral salts

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nitrous acid

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nitrous air

• 1
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nomenclature

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phlogisticated air

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phlogistication

• 1
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phlogiston

• 1
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physical approach to chemistry

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pneumatic chemistry

• 1
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practice

• 1

principles

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tartar

• 1

theory

• 1
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water as a compound

• 1

water controversy

• 1

water generation

• 1
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water synthesis

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weighing and measuring

• 1
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Earth

Anglo-French triangulation

• 1
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atmosphere, composition of

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auroras

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climates, mean heat by wells and springs

• 1

earthquakes

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geological journeys

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heights of mountains

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industrial uses of

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magnetism

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mean density of

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minerals and ores

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motion

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navigation and sea voyages

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shape

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strata

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weather

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electricity

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Leiden jars

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analogy with chemistry

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analogy with light

• 1

analogy with mechanics

• 1

analogy with sound propagation

• 1

animal electricity

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capacities

• 1
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compression of electric fluid, degree of electrification

• 1

electric fluid

• 1
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electrical machine and battery

• 1
• 2

electrometers

• 1
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errors and accuracy

• 1
• 2

heat generated

• 1

imponderable fluid

• 1
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law of electric force

• 1
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lightning

• 1
• 2

most active field

• 1

nature, principles, and laws of

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quantity of electric fluid

• 1

resistances, conductivities

• 1
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sparking chemical mixtures

• 1
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standards

• 1
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truth of the theory

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experiments and observations

chemistry

• 1
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collaboration

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electricity

• 1
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errors of observers, instruments, and theories

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heat

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

independent observations

• 1
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instruments

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

meaning of “experiment”

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quantitative

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reciprocal and constant proportions

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reliability, accuracy, precision, exactness

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repeatability of experiments

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senses

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standards, measures, equivalences

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Foundling Hospital, (Fig. 5.2, 99)

• 1
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Hackney Academy

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heat

as a material fluid

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as energy

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as motion

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boiling, theory of

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change of state

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chemical reactions

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conservation of energy

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electricity

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equilibrium of mixtures of unequally heated bodies

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expansion

• 1
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experiments on

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extreme natural and artificial cold

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friction and hammering

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importance of

• 1

latent and specific

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light

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mechanical equivalent of

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mechanical theory of

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mercury, freezing of

• 1
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quantitative science

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radiant

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rates of heating and cooling

• 1
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thermometers and related apparatus

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weight of

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imponderable fluids

• 1
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Institute of France

• 1

instruments and apparatus

• 1

air pump

• 1
• 2

astronomical

• 1
• 2

chemical balance

• 1
• 2

clocks

• 1

coinage apparatus

• 1

dividing instruments

• 1
• 2

electrical instruments and apparatus

• 1
• 2

eudiometer

• 1
• 2

examining and comparing

• 1
• 2

factitious air

• 1
• 2

heat

• 1

instrument makers

• 1
• 2
• 3

laboratory, various

• 1
• 2

magnetic

• 1
• 2

marine chronometers

• 1

mathematical

• 1

means of discovery

• 1
• 2

meteorological and magnetic instruments

• 1
• 2
• 3

musical

• 1

pneumatic chemistry

• 1
• 2
• 3

rods

• 1

sense organs

• 1
• 2
• 3

sensitivity, accuracy, precision

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7

telescopes

• 1
• 2

theodolite

• 1

thermometers

• 1
• 2
• 3

torsion balance

• 1
• 2

uniform method

• 1
• 2
• 3

life sciences

• 1
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London

Henry Cavendish’s familiar destinations, (Figs. 11.15–11.16)

• 1
• 2

attraction to Charles and Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

mathematics

algebra

• 1

fluxions

• 1
• 2
• 3
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of the English natural philosopher

• 1

probability

• 1

reasoning tool

• 1

natural philosophy as a way of life

• 1

natural philosophy, natural philosopher

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• 13

politics

Revolution of 1688–89 and aftermath

• 1
• 2
• 3

Royal Society

• 1
• 2

national

• 1
• 2
• 3

Royal Institution

• 1

Royal Society

• 1

founding

• 1

object of

• 1
• 2

subscribers, managers, and committees

• 1
• 2

Royal Society Club

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

guests

• 1
• 2

Royal Society of London, (Fig. 5.1, 98)

• 1

Anglo-French triangulation

• 1
• 2

British Museum

• 1
• 2

Copley Medal

• 1

Crane Court

• 1
• 2

Hudson’s Bay

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

London

• 1

Newton’s presence and influence

• 1

Philosophical Transactions

• 1
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• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12

Society of Antiquaries

• 1
• 2

Society of Arts

• 1

Somerset House, (Fig. 10.4, 254)

• 1

Westminster Bridge

• 1

aristocrats

• 1
• 2
• 3

attraction of mountains, (Figs. 10.2–10.3, 249, 438)

• 1
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• 3

committee of papers

• 1
• 2

committees

• 1

councils

• 1
• 2
• 3

criticism and defense of Newton

• 1

dissensions

• 1
• 2

exactness rewarded

• 1

guests

• 1

in the 1720s

• 1
• 2

lightning protection

• 1

masters of the Mint

• 1

officers

• 1
• 2
• 3

plain language

• 1
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practical science

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
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quality of

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recommendations, elections, membership

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• 3
• 4
• 5
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reports of violent events

• 1
• 2

science around 1727

• 1
• 2

science around 1750

• 1
• 2

standards

• 1
• 2
• 3

transits of Venus, (Fig. 10.1, 246)

• 1
• 2
• 3

voyages of discovery

• 1
• 2

weather recording

• 1
• 2

scientific clubs

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Scientific Revolution

• 1
• 2
• 3

Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry

• 1
• 2

Society of Antiquaries

• 1
• 2

Royal Society model

• 1

duty of

• 1

journal

• 1

Society of Arts

• 1
• 2
• 3

Royal Society

• 1

journal

• 1

Society of Free British Fisheries

• 1
• 2

theory

Newton’s authority

• 1

Philosophical Transactions

• 1

analogies

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

astronomy

• 1

chemistry

• 1
• 2
• 3

criteria of a good theory

• 1

electricity

• 1
• 2

ether

• 1

geology

• 1

heat

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7

hypotheses

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
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imponderable fluids

• 1

light

• 1
• 2

mechanics

• 1
• 2
• 3

music

• 1

reasonableness of

• 1

understanding nature

• 1
• 2

Westminster Bridge, (Figs. 5.5–5.6, 100–101)

• 1
• 2

Adams, George

• 1
• 2

Adams, Henry

on biography

• 1

Aepinus, F.U.T.

electrical theory and experiments

• 1
• 2

frozen mercury

• 1

Akenside, Mark

• 1
• 2

Royal Society Club

• 1

Alexander, William

• 1

Anguish, Thomas

dissensions at the Royal Society

• 1

Anne, Queen

• 1

Appia, Cyprian

• 1

Arago, D.F.J.

• 1

Arbuthnot, John

• 1

Arderon, William

• 1

Ashburnham, George, third earl of

• 1

Ashburnham, John, second earl of

• 1

Aubert, Alexander, (Fig. 12.3, 311)

• 1
• 2
• 3

Cavendish’s trustee

• 1
• 2

Monday Club

• 1

Royal Society

• 1
• 2

accuracy and error

• 1
• 2
• 3

astronomical observatory

• 1
• 2
• 3

astronomy

• 1

balloons

• 1

dissensions at the Royal Society

• 1

meteorological instruments

• 1

serving science

• 1

telescopes

• 1

view of Cavendish

• 1

Avogadro, Amedeo

• 1

Aykroyd, W.R.

view of Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2

Babbage, Charles

mechanical calculating machine

• 1
• 2

Bach, J.C.

• 1

Bach, J.S.

• 1

Bacon, Sir Francis

• 1
• 2

Baily, Francis

• 1

Baker, George

club meeting on the Strand

• 1

Baker, Henry

Society of Arts

• 1

Baldwin, Christopher

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Bamfield, Samuel

• 1

Banks, Sir Joseph, (Fig. 13.1, 316)

• 1
• 2
• 3

Anglo-French triangulation

• 1
• 2

British Museum

• 1

Cavendish’s papers

• 1

Charles Blagden, relations with

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Gregory mine

• 1

Institute of France

• 1

Philosophical Transactions

• 1

Royal Institution

• 1
• 2

Society of Antiquaries

• 1

coinage

• 1
• 2

conversaziones

• 1

excise duty

• 1

library

• 1

national politics

• 1
• 2

opinion of Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2

political dissensions at the Royal Society

• 1
• 2

president of the Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

promoting science

• 1

Barker, Robert

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Barrington, Daines

Society of Antiquaries

• 1

Barrow, John

• 1
• 2
• 3

view of Henry Cavendish

• 1

Baumé, Antoine

approach to chemistry

• 1

gravitation as chemical force

• 1
• 2

Bayley, William

observations in the far North

• 1

transit of Venus in 1769

• 1

Becher, Johann Joachim

phlogiston

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Beddoes, Thomas

• 1

Bennett, Abraham

• 1

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland

• 1

Bentley, Richard

Cambridge

• 1

Bergman, Torbern

• 1

affinity table

• 1
• 2

electricity

• 1

gravitation as chemical force

• 1
• 2
• 3

mineral water

• 1

Bernhard, Thomas

• 1

Berry, A.J.

• 1

biography of Henry Cavendish

• 1

view of Henry Cavendish

• 1

Berthollet, Claude Louis

• 1

new chemistry

• 1
• 2

phlogiston

• 1

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Berzelius, J.J.

• 1

Bevis, John

• 1

Bickley, Francis

view of Henry Cavendish

• 1

Biot, J.B.

encyclopedia article on Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2

opinion of Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2

Birch, Thomas, (Fig. 4.6, 75)

• 1

British Museum

• 1

Rawthmell’s Coffee-House

• 1

Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3

Royal Society Club

• 1
• 2

Society of Antiquaries

• 1

Wrest Park

• 1

friendship with Lord Charles Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

guest at Lord Charles Cavendish’s

• 1
• 2

patronized by the first and second earls of Hardwicke

• 1
• 2

recommended Henry Cavendish for F.R.S.

• 1

scientific activities

• 1
• 2

Bird, John

• 1
• 2
• 3

dividing instruments

• 1

Black, Joseph, (Fig. 14.5, 351)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

affinity table

• 1

approach to chemistry

• 1
• 2
• 3

balloons

• 1
• 2

chemical attraction

• 1

comparison with Cavendish

• 1
• 2

fixed air

• 1
• 2
• 3

freezing point of mercury

• 1

heat theory

• 1
• 2

heat, importance of

• 1

heat, quantitative study of

• 1

latent and specific heats

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

lectures

• 1

phlogiston

• 1

pneumatic chemistry as a field

• 1

Blagden, Sir Charles, (Fig. 12.1, 310)

• 1
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• 3
• 4
• 5
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• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16

Anglo-French triangulation

• 1
• 2

Bedford Square house

• 1

Cavendish’s death

• 1

Cavendish’s library

• 1

Cavendish’s papers

• 1

Cavendish’s seclusion from early life

• 1

Cavendish’s trustee

• 1

Chemical Revolution

• 1
• 2

Continental tour

• 1
• 2

Copley Medal

• 1

Institute of France

• 1

Monday Club

• 1

Royal Institution

• 1

Royal Society

• 1
• 2

Royal Society dissensions

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Royal Society secretary

• 1
• 2
• 3

annuity

• 1
• 2

assisted by Cavendish in his scientific work

• 1

association with Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7

balloons

• 1
• 2

break with Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

chemical nomenclature

• 1

copiousness and precision

• 1

dependence on and conflict with Joseph Banks

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

encouraged by Cavendish to practice medicine

• 1
• 2

excise duty on alcoholic beverages

• 1
• 2

foreign science and scientists, knowledge of

• 1

formal manner

• 1

freezing point of mercury

• 1

friendship with Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire

• 1
• 2

heat

• 1
• 2
• 3

instruments

• 1
• 2

journeys with Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3

languages

• 1
• 2

legacy from Henry Cavendish

• 1

move from medical career to science

• 1
• 2

moving Henry Cavendish’s house

• 1

national politics

• 1
• 2

not a man of genius

• 1

opinion of Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3

phlogistic versus anti-phlogistic chemistry

• 1
• 2
• 3

physician

• 1
• 2
• 3

routine

• 1

scientific researches

• 1

student and friend of William Cullen’s

• 1

traveler

• 1
• 2

water controversy

• 1
• 2
• 3

Blake, Francis

• 1

Blanchard, Jean Pierre

• 1
• 2

Blanchard, Wilkinson

Henry Cavendish’s guest at the Royal Society Club

• 1

Bligh, William

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Bliss, Nathaniel

• 1

Blunt, Thomas

• 1
• 2
• 3

Boerhaave, Herman

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

chemical affinities

• 1

consulted by Lord Charles and Lady Anne Cavendish

• 1

doctrine of elementary fire

• 1

physical approach to chemistry

• 1

textbooks

• 1
• 2

Bonaparte, Napoleon

opinion of Henry Cavendish

• 1

Boscovich, Roger Joseph

• 1
• 2

particles and forces, view of matter

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

transit of Venus in 1769

• 1

Boswell, James

• 1
• 2
• 3

Bouguer, Pierre

• 1

heights of mountains

• 1

Boulton, Matthew

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Boyle, Charles, earl of Orrery (son of Anne Cavendish, sister of the first duke of Devonshire)

• 1

orrery

• 1

Boyle, Charlotte

• 1

Boyle, Richard, earl of Burlington

• 1

Boyle, Robert

• 1
• 2

Boyle’s law

• 1

aristocrat in science

• 1
• 2

experiments on air

• 1

physical approach to chemistry

• 1

pneumatic chemistry, a field

• 1

related to the Cavendishes

• 1

Boys, C.V.

• 1

Bradley, James, (Fig. 5.7, 111)

• 1

Royal Society

• 1
• 2

aberration of light

• 1

astronomer royal

• 1

collaboration with Lord Macclesfield

• 1

examination of instruments

• 1

proposed Henry Cavendish for F.R.S.

• 1

supported by Lord Charles Cavendish for astronomer royal

• 1

value of instruments

• 1
• 2

Brande, William Thomas

Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry

• 1

Braun, J.A.

frozen mercury

• 1
• 2

Brice, Alexander

• 1

Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins

• 1

Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry

• 1

Brookes, Joshua

• 1

Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron

scientific biographies

• 1

view of Henry Cavendish

• 1

Brown, Henton

• 1

Brown, Robert

Cavendish as an honorable man

• 1

Brownrigg, William

firedamp

• 1
• 2
• 3

mineral water

• 1
• 2

pneumatic chemistry as a field

• 1
• 2

salt-making

• 1

Buffon, G.-L.L., comte de

• 1
• 2

Burke, Edmund

• 1

Burney, Charles

• 1
• 2

Burrow, Reuben

• 1
• 2

Burrow, Sir James

Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Royal Society Club

• 1

Society of Antiquaries

• 1
• 2

Bussiere, Paul

• 1

Byrom, John

• 1

Camden, Charles

• 1

Campbell, John, Lord Glenorchy

pupil of Thomas Wright’s

• 1

Canton, John

• 1
• 2

Aepinus

• 1

Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2

Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3

compressibility of water, and Copley Medal

• 1
• 2

electrical researches

• 1
• 2
• 3

magnetism

• 1

Carlisle, Isabella

• 1

Carlyle, Alexander

• 1

Cassini de Thury, C.-F.

• 1
• 2

Cavallo, Tiberius

• 1

eudiometer

• 1
• 2

evaporation

• 1

heat and light

• 1

heat as a material fluid

• 1

pneumatic chemistry as a field

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Lady Anne (de Grey) (daughter of the duke of Kent), (Fig. 4.2, 65)

birth of first child, Henry

• 1

death

• 1

examined by Herman Boerhaave

• 1

illness

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

marriage to Lord Charles Cavendish

• 1

second child, Frederick

• 1

Cavendish, Lady Anne (daughter of the second duke of Devonshire)

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Lady Caroline (daughter of the third duke of Devonshire)

• 1

Cavendish, Charles

scientific interests

• 1

Cavendish, Lord Charles (son of the second duke of Devonshire), (Fig. 4.1, 64)

• 1

Académie de Calvin, Geneva

• 1

Académie d’exercises, Lunéville

• 1
• 2

British Museum

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Copley Medal

• 1
• 2

Eton

• 1
• 2

Foundling Hospital

• 1
• 2

Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales

• 1
• 2

Great Marlborough Street house, (Figs. 4.4–4.5)

• 1
• 2

Greenwich Royal Observatory visitations

• 1

Grosvenor Square house

• 1

Harrison’s marine chronometers

• 1

Holker Hall

• 1
• 2

House of Commons

• 1
• 2
• 3

Lowther executorships, inheritances, and lawsuit

• 1
• 2

Mitre Tavern

• 1

Putteridge manor

• 1

Rawthmell’s Coffee-House

• 1

Robert Walpole

• 1

Royal Society

• 1
• 2

Royal Society Club

• 1
• 2

Royal Society library inspector

• 1
• 2

Royal Society’s standard weights and measures

• 1
• 2

Society of Arts

• 1

Society of Free British Fisheries

• 1
• 2

Westminster Bridge

• 1
• 2

aristocrat in science

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

astronomical observations made with his son Henry

• 1

astronomical observations with Bradley

• 1

auditor of the Royal Society treasurer’s accounts

• 1

birth

• 1

bringing Henry as guest to the Royal Society

• 1

calculations of errors of time for Ludlam

• 1

club meeting on the Strand

• 1

clubs

• 1
• 2

committee of papers

• 1
• 2
• 3

council member and vice president of the Royal Society

• 1
• 2

country properties in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

• 1
• 2
• 3

dedication to the Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

draining of the fens

• 1

duty of service

• 1
• 2

early homes

• 1

electrical conduction across the River Thames

• 1

electrical conduction through a vacuum

• 1

electrical conductivity of heated glass

• 1

experiments on water, vapor, steam, mercury, heat, and capillarity

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

family relationships

• 1
• 2

grand tour

• 1
• 2
• 3

health and death

• 1

host of dinners

• 1
• 2

income

• 1
• 2

inheritance from his first cousin Elizabeth

• 1

introducing Henry to his social circle

• 1
• 2
• 3

library

• 1
• 2

maintenance of his son Frederick

• 1
• 2

marriage to Lady Anne de Grey

• 1

mathematical student of Abraham De Moivre’s

• 1
• 2

meteorological observations

• 1

overseeing Henry’s education

• 1
• 2

papers

• 1

proposed by William Jones for F.R.S.

• 1

public service

• 1

recommendations of candidates for F.R.S.

• 1
• 2

repetition of John Canton’s experiments on the compressibility of water

• 1
• 2

residence in Nice

• 1

shipwreck

• 1
• 2

social circle

• 1
• 2

supporting Henry’s scientific direction

• 1
• 2

thermometers, (Fig. 5.8, 117)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

transit of Venus in 1761

• 1

turnpikes

• 1

urged to become president of the Royal Society

• 1

vestry of St. James, Westminster

• 1

visits to the Grey family

• 1
• 2

wealth

• 1

will

• 1

Cavendish, Charles (grandson of the fourth duke of Devonshire)

legacy from Henry Cavendish

• 1

Cavendish, Lady Diana (daughter of the second duke of Devonshire)

• 1

Cavendish, Lady Elizabeth (daughter of the first duke of Devonshire)

• 1

Cavendish, Lady Elizabeth (daughter of the second duke of Devonshire)

• 1
• 2
• 3

insanity

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Elizabeth (granddaughter of the first duke of Devonshire, daughter of Lord James)

• 1

legacy to Lord Charles Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3

marriage to Richard Chandler (who changed his name to Cavendish)

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Frederick (second son of Lord Charles and Lady Anne Cavendish)

Hackney Academy

• 1

Peterhouse, Cambridge

• 1

accident

• 1
• 2

birth

• 1

character

• 1

heirs

• 1

inheritance of landed property from his brother, Henry

• 1
• 2

mental incompetence

• 1

relations with Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3

Cavendish, Frederick (son of the third duke of Devonshire)

Holker Hall

• 1
• 2
• 3

Cavendish, Lord George Augustus (son of the third duke of Devonshire)

Holker Hall

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Lord George Augustus Henry (son of the fourth duke of Devonshire)

• 1

Cavendish’s executor and principal heir

• 1
• 2

Cavendish’s instruments

• 1

Cavendish’s library

• 1
• 2

Cavendish’s scientific papers

• 1
• 2
• 3

Hackney Academy

• 1

Holker Hall

• 1
• 2

Society of Arts

• 1

Cavendish, Henry (first son of Lord Charles and Lady Anne Cavendish), (Fig. 4.3, 66)

Aepinus’s theory of electricity

• 1
• 2
• 3

Anglo-French triangulation

• 1
• 2

Bedford Square, (Figs. 11.5–11.6, 269–270)

• 1
• 2
• 3

Boscovich and Michell, theory of matter

• 1

Bristol sewage

• 1

British Museum

• 1
• 2
• 3

Cambridge lectures and textbooks on mathematics and natural philosophy

• 1
• 2

Cat & Bagpipes

• 1

Cavendish experiment

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Charles Blagden, association with

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9

Chemical Revolution

• 1
• 2

Chemische Annalen

• 1
• 2
• 3

Clapham Common house and setting, (Figs. 11.8–11.14, 282–286)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Clapham Common land developer

• 1
• 2

Copley Medal

• 1

Crown & Anchor

• 1

Earth-magnetic instruments, (Figs. 8.6–8.7)

• 1
• 2

Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire

• 1
• 2

Giardini Academy

• 1
• 2

Great Marlborough Street: house, apartment, laboratory, and garden at

• 1
• 2
• 3

Hackney Academy, (Fig. 6.1, 124)

• 1
• 2

Hampstead, (Figs. 11.1–11.4, 263–266)

• 1
• 2

Henrietta Street meeting place

• 1

Hindu calendar

• 1
• 2
• 3

Holker Hall

• 1
• 2
• 3

Hudson’s Bay experiments

• 1
• 2

Industrial Revolution

• 1

Institute of France

• 1

Joseph Banks

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

King’s Head

• 1

Kirwan’s criticism answered

• 1
• 2

Lavoisier’s anti-phlogistic chemistry and phlogistic chemistry, compared

• 1
• 2

Leiden-jar battery, (Fig. 9.5, 216)

• 1

Mitre Coffee House

• 1

Monday Club at the George & Vulture, (Fig. 12.7, 313)

• 1

Newtonian

• 1

Newtonian indoctrination at Cambridge

• 1

Newton’s Principia as model for electricity

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Newton’s authority on theory

• 1

Newton’s natural philosophy, master of all parts of

• 1

Ohm’s law

• 1

Peterhouse, Cambridge

• 1
• 2

Rawthmell’s Coffee-House

• 1
• 2

Royal Institution

• 1
• 2

Royal Society Club

• 1
• 2
• 3

Royal Society Councils

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Royal Society Papers Committee

• 1

Royal Society auditor

• 1

Royal Society committees

• 1

Royal Society dissensions

• 1
• 2

Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry

• 1
• 2

Society of Antiquaries

• 1
• 2

Society of Arts

• 1
• 2

acids, specific gravities and freezing points of

• 1
• 2

action at a distance

• 1

affinity

• 1
• 2

affinity table, (Fig. 14.12)

• 1
• 2

air experiments

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

air from distilled substances

• 1

air from fermented and putrefied substances

• 1
• 2

alum works

• 1

analogies

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

animal and plant substances

• 1
• 2

annuity

• 1

apparatus for adjusting the boiling point, (Fig. 8.5)

• 1

apparatus in the laboratory, (Figs. 15.3–15.6)

• 1
• 2

appearance

• 1

argon

• 1

aristocrat in science

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8

arsenic

• 1
• 2

astronomical observatory

• 1
• 2

astronomy

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

atmosphere, composition of

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

atmosphere, researches on

• 1

attended social dinners with his father

• 1
• 2

attraction of mountains, (Fig. 10.2, 249)

• 1
• 2

auroras

• 1

autism

• 1
• 2

average climates, temperature of wells and springs

• 1
• 2
• 3

balloons

• 1
• 2

biographies of

• 1
• 2

biography, difficulty of

• 1

birth in Nice

• 1

boiling, theory of

• 1
• 2

candor

• 1

caution

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

change of state

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

charges of coated plates/Leiden jars, (Figs. 9.11–9.12, 225–226)

• 1
• 2

charity

• 1
• 2

chemical balance, (Fig. 14.15, 375)

• 1
• 2

chemical laboratory

• 1
• 2

chemical nomenclature

• 1

chemical techniques

• 1
• 2
• 3

chemical theory

• 1
• 2
• 3

chemistry, approach to

• 1
• 2
• 3

chronology

• 1
• 2

clocks

• 1

club meeting on the Strand

• 1

clubs

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

coinage, (Fig. 17.9, 476)

• 1
• 2

coldness toward others

• 1
• 2

combination of mathematical-theoretical and experimental skills

• 1

comets and comet paths

• 1
• 2

commercial revolution

• 1

comparison with Black

• 1
• 2

comparison with Laplace

• 1

comparison with Lavoisier

• 1

comparison with Priestley in chemistry

• 1

comprehensive researches

• 1

confidence

• 1

conservation of energy

• 1
• 2
• 3

conservative

• 1

contribution to pneumatic chemistry

• 1

copper smelting

• 1

correspondent

• 1
• 2

country properties in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

• 1
• 2

criticism and reformulation of Lavoisier’s anti-phlogistic chemistry

• 1

criticism of Lavoisier’s acidifying principle

• 1
• 2

death

• 1

dedication to the Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

dephlogisticated air

• 1
• 2
• 3

disorder

• 1
• 2

dispersion and refraction of light, experiments on, (Fig.  17.3, 462)

• 1
• 2

dividing astronomical instruments, (Fig. 17.4, 467)

• 1
• 2

duty of service, public service

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

eccentricity

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

elected F.R.S.

• 1
• 2

electrical capacities, (Figs. 9.9–9.11, 222, 225)

• 1
• 2

electrical conduction and conductivities

• 1
• 2

electrical force, law of, (Figs. 9.7–9.8, 219–220)

• 1
• 2
• 3

electrical laboratory

• 1

electrical machine, (Fig. 9.4)

• 1
• 2

electrical potential, the modern concept and Cavendish’s

• 1

electrical theory

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

electrometers, (Fig. 9.6, 216)

• 1
• 2

electromotive force

• 1

embarrassment

• 1

encyclopedic knowledge of physical science

• 1

energy, personal

• 1

equivalent weights

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

equivalents and standards in coinage

• 1

equivalents in heat and electricity

• 1

errors of instruments, observers, and theory, limits of accuracy, precision, exactitude

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18

eudiometer, (Figs. 14.1–14.2, 334–335)

• 1
• 2
• 3

excise duty on alcohol

• 1

extraordinary singularities

• 1

extreme natural and artificial cold

• 1
• 2

factitious air, (Fig. 8.3, 181)

• 1
• 2

family trees

• 1
• 2

first published research, in Heberden’s paper

• 1
• 2

fixed air

• 1
• 2

forces, attractions and repulsions, (Fig. 15.2, 401)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

funeral

• 1

geological and industrial chemical experiments

• 1

geology

• 1
• 2

guest of his father’s at the Royal Society

• 1
• 2

guests of his at the Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3

health

• 1
• 2

heat as material fluid

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

heat as motion of particles

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7

heat of chemical reactions

• 1

heat theory, why he did not publish it

• 1
• 2

heat, experiments on

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

heat, mechanical theory of

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

heat, weight of

• 1

heat, why he did not publish his experiments

• 1
• 2

heat, why he made a theory

• 1
• 2

heights of mountains by the barometer, (Figs. 16.1–16.2, 423–424)

• 1
• 2

heirs

• 1
• 2

his brain “but a calculating engine,” Wilson’s characterization

• 1

honourable title

• 1
• 2

hygrometers

• 1
• 2

hypotheses

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

hypothesis and theory of electricity

• 1
• 2

hypothesis and theory of heat

• 1
• 2

imponderable fluids

• 1

importance of his father to his direction in life

• 1

inflammable air

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

instrument collection

• 1
• 2

instruments: examination, comparison, and use of

• 1
• 2
• 3

integrity

• 1

intemperate pursuit of science

• 1

iron smelting

• 1
• 2
• 3

journeys, industrial and geological

• 1
• 2
• 3

laboratory assistants

• 1

learning science from the Philosophical Transactions

• 1
• 2

leaving home

• 1
• 2

library

• 1
• 2
• 3

life of natural philosophy

• 1
• 2

light and heat

• 1
• 2

light, gravitation of

• 1

light, theory of

• 1
• 2

lightning protection at powder works and magazines

• 1
• 2

magnetic dip

• 1

magnetic variation

• 1

manufactures

• 1
• 2
• 3

marine acid

• 1

mathematical instruments and drawings, (Figs. 9.1–9.3)

• 1
• 2

mathematical mind

• 1
• 2
• 3

mathematics

• 1
• 2

mechanical equivalent of heat

• 1
• 2

mercury, freezing temperature

• 1
• 2
• 3

meteorological instruments of the Royal Society

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

meteorological observatory

• 1

meteorology

• 1
• 2

mine descents

• 1

mineral water

• 1
• 2

misogyny

• 1

music

• 1
• 2

national politics

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

natural history

• 1

natural philosopher, natural philosophy

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11

nautical astronomy

• 1

nervous manner

• 1

nitrous acid, (Fig. 14.4, 343)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

nitrous air

• 1
• 2

not inventive of new problems

• 1

objectivity

• 1

observatory

• 1

openness

• 1

particles and forces, view of matter, (Fig. 9.13, 227)

• 1
• 2

patience

• 1

phlogisticated air

• 1
• 2

phlogiston

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7

phlogiston, renounced

• 1
• 2
• 3

physical approach to chemistry

• 1

plumbago

• 1

pneumatic chemistry contributions

• 1
• 2
• 3

poem on Frederick, Prince of Wales

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

portrait of

• 1
• 2

principle of partial pressures

• 1

principles

• 1
• 2

productive research, years of

• 1

qualitative aspect of his researches

• 1
• 2

quantitative aspect of his researches

• 1
• 2

radiant heat

• 1

reason

• 1

reception of his electrical theory

• 1
• 2

recognition of central problems of natural philosophy

• 1

recommendations of F.R.S.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

recommendations of leading anti-phlogistic chemists for F.R.S.

• 1

relations to society through science

• 1

religion

• 1
• 2

reluctance to publish

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8

reserve

• 1

rivalry with Black avoided

• 1

routine

• 1
• 2

science as an exclusive interest

• 1
• 2

scientific manuscripts

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

self-registering thermometer, (Fig. 8.4)

• 1

shyness

• 1

simplicity

• 1
• 2

solitary

• 1

solution of metals in acids, theory of

• 1
• 2

specific and latent heats

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

specific and latent heats, theory of

• 1
• 2

specific inductive capacities

• 1

speech peculiarities

• 1
• 2
• 3

standard of excellence

• 1
• 2

standard volume measures for air, (Fig. 14.3)

• 1

standards

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

steam engines, (Figs. 16.4–16.5, 426–427)

• 1
• 2

stones, experiments on

• 1

strata

• 1
• 2
• 3

strength of will

• 1

strict reasoning in science

• 1
• 2

taciturnity

• 1

tartar

• 1

telescopes

• 1
• 2

theorist

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

theory in natural philosophy

• 1
• 2

theory of motion

• 1

thermometers

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9

time

• 1

timidity

• 1

torpedo, artificial electrical fish, (Fig. 9.14, 232)

• 1
• 2

torsion balance, (Fig. 16.8, 437)

• 1
• 2

trained in science by his father

• 1

transit of Venus in 1761

• 1
• 2

transit of Venus in 1769

• 1
• 2

truth seeking

• 1

understanding

• 1
• 2

universal constants

• 1

vis viva

• 1
• 2

visits to the Grey family

• 1

voyages of discovery

• 1
• 2

water

• 1
• 2

water controversy

• 1
• 2

way of making a theory

• 1
• 2

wealth, (Fig. 17.11, 483)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

weighing the world

• 1
• 2

will

• 1
• 2

wind measurer

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Henry (grandson of the fourth duke of Devonshire)

legacy from Henry Cavendish

• 1

Cavendish, Sir Henry

• 1

Cavendish, Lord James (son of the first duke of Devonshire)

• 1

House of Commons

• 1

Rawthmell’s Coffee-House

• 1

scientific interests

• 1
• 2
• 3

Cavendish, Lord James (son of the second duke of Devonshire)

Académie d’exercises, Nancy and Lunéville

• 1

Eton

• 1

House of Commons

• 1
• 2

grand tour

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

military

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Lord John (son of the third duke of Devonshire)

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Hackney Academy

• 1

Peterhouse, Cambridge

• 1
• 2

Cavendish, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle

scientific interests

• 1

Cavendish, Lady Mary (daughter of the second duke of Devonshire)

• 1

Cavendish, Lady Rachel (daughter of the second duke of Devonshire)

• 1
• 2
• 3

Cavendish, Lady Rachel (daughter of the third duke of Devonshire)

• 1

Cavendish, Lord Richard (son of the fourth duke of Devonshire)

Hackney Academy

• 1

scientific interest

• 1

Cavendish, William, duke of Newcastle

scientific interest

• 1

Cavendish, William (son of Lord James Cavendish)

• 1

Cavendish, William (grandson of the fourth duke of Devonshire)

legacy from Henry Cavendish

• 1

Cay, Henry Boult

Cambridge

• 1
• 2

Henry Cavendish’s guest at the Royal Society Club

• 1

Chambers, Ephraim

• 1

Chambers, William

• 1

Chandler, Barbara

• 1

Chandler, Richard (later Richard Cavendish)

• 1

Clairaut, Alexis Claude

• 1

Clarke, Henry

• 1

Cleghorn, William

• 1

heat theory

• 1
• 2

heat, importance of

• 1

Cole, William

• 1

Colebrooke, Josiah

Royal Society Club

• 1

recommended Henry Cavendish to the Society of Antiquaries

• 1

Colmar, Thomas de

mechanical calculating machine

• 1

Colson, John

Cambridge

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Rawthmell’s Coffee-House

• 1

pupil of De Moivre’s

• 1

Conduitt, John

• 1

Cook, James

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

voyage instructions from Cavendish

• 1

Coram, Thomas

• 1

Cotes, Roger

• 1

Cambridge

• 1

pneumatic chemistry

• 1
• 2

theory of errors

• 1

tutor to the duke of Kent’s sons

• 1

Coulomb, Charles Augustin

• 1
• 2

Cramer, Gabriel

• 1

Crawford, Adair

• 1

difficulty of making repeatable experiments in heat

• 1
• 2

Crell, Lorenz

• 1

chemical journal

• 1
• 2

water controversy

• 1
• 2

Cullen, Charles

assistant to Henry Cavendish

• 1

Cullen, William

• 1
• 2
• 3

affinity table

• 1

approach to chemistry

• 1

chemical attraction

• 1

chemical teaching

• 1
• 2

latent heat

• 1
• 2
• 3

library

• 1

Curzon, Nathaniel

• 1
• 2

Cuthbert, John

• 1

Cuthbertson, John

coinage experiments

• 1

Cuvier, Georges

• 1
• 2

obituary of Cavendish

• 1
• 2

Dalby, Isaac

• 1
• 2

Dalrymple, Alexander, (Fig. 12.2, 311)

• 1

Cavendish’s trustee

• 1

Monday Club

• 1

Society of Antiquaries

• 1

dissensions at the Royal Society

• 1

exactness and error

• 1
• 2

instruments

• 1

legacy from Henry Cavendish

• 1

library

• 1

Dalton, John

Royal Institution

• 1
• 2

atomic theory

• 1
• 2

Darby, Abraham III

• 1

Davall, Peter

Royal Society

• 1

Royal Society Club

• 1

pupil of De Moivre’s

• 1

Davies, Richard

specific gravities

• 1
• 2

Davis, Samuel

Hindu astronomy

• 1
• 2

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

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Davy, Sir Humphry, (Fig. 17.7, 474)

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Cavendish’s instruments and apparatus

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Royal Institution

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Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry

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consultation with Cavendish

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heat

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phlogiston

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view of Henry Cavendish

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Davy, John

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Delambre, Jean-Baptiste Joseph

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

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Delaval, Edward

Cambridge

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aristocrat in science

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chemistry

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electricity

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Deluc, Jean André

geological theory

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height of mountains by the barometer

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latent heat

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meteorological instruments

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perfection of instruments

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theory of boiling

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touring

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water controversy

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Derham, William

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Desaguliers, John Theophilus

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Westminster Bridge

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experiments at the Royal Society

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Devonshire, Georgiana (Spencer) duchess of Devonshire (wife of the fifth duke), (Fig. 17.1, 452

friendship with Henry Cavendish

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Devonshire, Rachel (Russell), duchess of Devonshire (wife of the second duke), (Fig. 1.9, 33)

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Devonshire, William Cavendish, third earl of

scientific interest

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Devonshire, William Cavendish, first duke of

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De Moivre

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Revolution of 1688–89

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dukedom

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Devonshire, William Cavendish, second duke of, (Fig. 1.8, 33)

grand tour

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lodestone

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parliamentary career

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personality

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political principles

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public service

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Devonshire, William Cavendish, third duke of

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Foundling Hospital

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Oxford

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Robert Walpole

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Royal Society

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interest in art and science

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personality

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political career

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relations with Lord Charles Cavendish

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Devonshire, William Cavendish, fourth duke of

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character

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political career

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united Boyle and Cavendish families

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Devonshire, William Cavendish, fifth duke of

character

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disapproval of Henry Cavendish

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omitted from Henry Cavendish’s will

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Devonshire, William Cavendish, seventh duke of

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

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Henry Cavendish’s scientific papers

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Devonshire, William Spencer George Cavendish, sixth duke of

Henry Cavendish’s library

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Disney, William

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Dixon, Jeremiah

degree of latitude

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transit of Venus in 1761

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Dodson, James

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pupil of De Moivre’s

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Dolland, John

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Newton’s dispersion law, experiments on

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achromatic telescope

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Dolland, Peter

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Dollfuss, Johann Caspar

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Douglas, James, fourteenth earl of Morton

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Royal Society

• 1
• 2

Society of Arts

• 1

aristocrat, in science

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opinion of Lord Charles Cavendish’s scientific skill

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president of the Royal Society

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Drake, Francis

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Dunn, Thomas

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Dunning, John

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Dunthorne, Richard

• 1

Dupré, Josias

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Dymond, Joseph

meteorology

• 1

transit of Venus in 1769

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Edgerton, Francis Henry, eighth earl of Bridgewater

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Edgerton, John William, seventh earl of Bridgewater

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Eeles, Henry

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Ellicott, John

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Ellis, Henry

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Emerson, William

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Empson, James

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Enfield, William

work of the natural philosopher

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Euler, Leonhard

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Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel

heat capacity

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super-cooled water

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Faraday, Michael

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Fitzgerald, Keane

frozen mercury

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Flamsteed, John

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Fletcher, John

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Foley, Thomas

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Folkes, Martin

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Royal Society

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Royal Society Club

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Society of Antiquaries

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Fontana, Felice

eudiometer

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Fontana, Gregorio

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Fordyce, George

heat and light

• 1

nature of heat

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phlogiston

• 1

weight of heat

• 1

Fox, Charles James

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Franklin, Benjamin

Aepinus

• 1

Monday Club

• 1

Royal Society

• 1

Society of Antiquaries

• 1

Society of Arts

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• 2

attraction of mountains

• 1

cooling by evaporation

• 1

electrical researches

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lightning committee

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opinion of Lord Charles Cavendish as experimenter

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Frederick, prince of Wales

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Cambridge

• 1
• 2

Lord Charles Cavendish

• 1
• 2

Royal Society

• 1
• 2

person and politics

• 1
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sponsor of Frederick Cavendish

• 1

Freind, John

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Gale, Roger

• 1

Galvani, Luigi

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Garnett, Thomas

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• 2

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis

• 1
• 2

Gellert, Christlieb Ehregott

affinity table, (Fig. 14.13, 370)

• 1

Geoffroy, Etienne-François

affinity table

• 1
• 2

rapport

• 1

George I, King

Royal Society

• 1

opinion of the second duke of Devonshire

• 1

George II, King

Royal Society

• 1

opinion of Lords Charles and James Cavendish

• 1

George III, King

• 1

constitutional crisis

• 1

Giardini, Felice

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musical academy

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Gibbon, Edward

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Gilbert, William

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Gilpin, George

excise duty on alcoholic beverages

• 1

repetition of Cavendish’s experiment on nitrous; acid

• 1

weighing the world with Cavendish

• 1

Gmelin, Johann Georg

extreme natural cold

• 1
• 2

Goombridge, Stephen

• 1

Gough, Richard

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Gould, William

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Graham, George

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Graham, Richard

Rawthmell’s Coffee-House

• 1

’sGravesande, Willem Jacob

Cambridge textbook

• 1

Gray, Stephen

• 1

Gray, Thomas

British Museum

• 1

Cambridge

• 1
• 2

Green, George

• 1

Green, John

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Grey, Lord Anthony (son of the duke of Kent)

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Grey, Lord Henry de (son of the duke of Kent)

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Grey, Jemima de (daughter of the duke of Kent)

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Grey, Lady Mary de (daughter of the duke of Kent)

pupil of Thomas Wright’s

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Grey, Lady Sophia de (daughter of the duke of Kent)

pupil of Thomas Wright’s

• 1

Guinard, Pierre Louis

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Guyton de Morveau, L.B.

approach to chemistry

• 1

new chemistry and nomenclature

• 1

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Hadley, John (instrument maker)

• 1

Hadley, John (nephew of above)

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Cambridge chemical lectures

• 1
• 2

Henry Cavendish

• 1

Royal Society Club

• 1

Society of Arts

• 1

affinity table

• 1

cooling by evaporation

• 1

guest at Lord Charles Cavendish’s

• 1

mineral water

• 1

phlogiston

• 1

recommended Henry Cavendish for F.R.S.

• 1
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Hale, John Blagden

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Hales, Stephen

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chemical attraction

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earthquakes

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fixed air

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instruments and apparatus, inventiveness

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pneumatic chemistry as a field

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pneumatic trough

• 1

state of electrical research

• 1

Hall, Sir James

• 1

experimental geology

• 1

Halley, Edmond

• 1

Newton

• 1

Royal Society

• 1

astronomer royal

• 1

Hamilton, Catherine

• 1

Hamilton, Hugh

object of natural philosophy

• 1

Hamilton, Sir William

Henry Cavendish’s opinion about

• 1
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music

• 1

volcanoes

• 1

Harcourt, Vernon

Cavendish and phlogiston

• 1

Henry Cavendish’s chemical manuscripts

• 1

water controversy

• 1

Hardwick, Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury

Chatsworth House, (Figs. 1.6–1.7, 32)

• 1

Hardwick Hall

• 1

Harris, William Snow

Henry Cavendish’s electrical papers

• 1
• 2

Harrison, John

marine chronometers

• 1

musical experiment

• 1

Harrison, William

Henry Cavendish’s instrument maker

• 1

Hartley, David

• 1

Hatchett, Charles, (Fig. 17.5, 473)

Royal Institution

• 1
• 2

Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry

• 1

coinage experiments

• 1
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Heberden, Thomas

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Heberden, William, (Fig. 4.8, 76)

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British Museum

• 1

Cambridge

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Monday Club

• 1

Royal Society

• 1
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• 3

Royal Society Club

• 1

Society of Antiquaries

• 1

Society of Arts

• 1
• 2

close friend of Lord Charles Cavendish’s

• 1
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club meeting on the Strand

• 1

dissensions at the Royal Society

• 1
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• 3

guest at Lord Charles Cavendish’s

• 1
• 2

meteorological instruments

• 1

meteorological observations with Lord Charles Cavendish

• 1

proposed Henry Cavendish for F.R.S.

• 1

published research done by Henry Cavendish

• 1
• 2
• 3

recommended Henry Cavendish to the Society of Antiquaries

• 1

scientific activities

• 1
• 2

value of scientific societies

• 1

Heberden, William (son of above)

prescribed for Henry Cavendish at his death

• 1

Helmont, J.B. van

• 1

Henly, William

• 1

electric fish

• 1

electrometer

• 1
• 2

Herschel, Caroline

comets

• 1
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Herschel, William, (Fig. 12.6, 313)

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Institute of France

• 1

astronomical observatory

• 1

comets

• 1

exactness and error

• 1
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music

• 1

telescopes

• 1
• 2

weather

• 1

Heydinger

Henry Cavendish’s German librarian

• 1

Higgins, Bryan

heat as a material fluid

• 1

Hill, John

• 1

Himsel, Nicholas de

frozen mercury

• 1

Hindley, John

• 1

Hobbes, Thomas

tutor to Cavendishes

• 1

Holford, Peter

club meeting on the Strand

• 1

Holland, Sir Henry

view of Henry Cavendish

• 1

Homberg, Wilhelm

equivalent weights

• 1

Home, Everard

Henry Cavendish’s death

• 1

Henry Cavendish’s physician

• 1
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• 3
• 4

Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry

• 1

Hooke, Robert

• 1
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• 3

Hopkinson, Francis

• 1

Hornsby, Thomas

• 1

Horsburgh, James

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Horsley, Samuel

dissensions at the Royal Society

• 1
• 2

meteorological instruments

• 1

uses of theory in science

• 1

Huck Saunders, Richard

club meeting on the Strand

• 1

Humboldt, Alexander von

Henry Cavendish’s library

• 1

eudiometer

• 1

Hume, David

revolution of 1688–89

• 1

Hunter, John

electric fish

• 1
• 2
• 3

Hunter, John, (Fig.12.4, 312)

Henry Cavendish’s physician

• 1
• 2

heat of springs and wells

• 1

legacy from Cavendish

• 1

recommended for F.R.S. by Henry Cavendish

• 1

Hutchins, Thomas

• 1

accuracy praised by Henry Cavendish

• 1

freezing point of mercury

• 1
• 2

Hutton, Charles

Royal Society dissensions

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attraction of mountains

• 1
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• 3
• 4

library

• 1

meteorology

• 1

Hutton, James

error

• 1

geological theory

• 1

natural philosophy as the aim of science

• 1
• 2

need for theory in science

• 1

Huygens, Christiaan

aerial telescope

• 1
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• 3

music

• 1

Huygens, Constantine

• 1

Ingen-Housz, Jan

eudiometer

• 1
• 2

Innys, Thomas

• 1

Irvine, William

heat theory

• 1
• 2

latent heat

• 1

James, William

• 1

Jebb, John

• 1

Jeffries, John

• 1
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Jenkinson, Charles, first Earl of Liverpool

coinage

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Johnson, Samuel

• 1

Jones, William

• 1
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Rawthmell’s Coffee-House

• 1

Royal Society

• 1
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• 3

mathematical friend of De Moivre’s

• 1

proposed Lord Charles Cavendish for F.R.S.

• 1

secretary to Thomas Parker, first Earl of Macclesfield

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