Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities

Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities

McCormmach, Russell

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2016

310

Mole

Inglês

9783319350646

15 a 20 dias

4978

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Table of Contents.- List of Illustrations.- Preface.- Part I. He Always Knew What Was Right for Him.- 1. The Person.- 2. Normality, Abnormality, and Scientists.- 3. Everyday Life.- 4. Life of Natural Philosophy.- 5. Aspects of Personality.- 6. Views of Cavendish.- 7. Eccentricity.- 8. Autism.- 9. Conclusion.- Part II. He Saw What Interested Him.- 10. The Traveler.- Appendix 1. Journal of 1785.- Appendix 2. Cavendish and Grey Family Trees.- Appendix 3. Letters between Brothers: Henry and Frederick Cavendish.- Appendix 4. Cavendish's Houses: Clapham Common and Bedford Square.- Appendix 5. Cavendishes, Lowthers, and Holker Hall.- Appendix 6. Autism.- Appendix 7. Physical Theory and Theory of Autism.- Bibliography.- Index.
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Autism and Other Disorders;Cavendish and Grey Family Trees;Cavendish's Houses;Henry Cavendish;Henry and Frederick Cavendish;Industry and Earth;Knowledge and Truth;Life of Natural Philosophy;Mathematical and Musical Mind;Natural Philosopher;Nervous Disorders and Eccentricity;Physical Theory and Theory of Autism;Physical World;Psychology of science;Scientific Society;Shyness and Introversion;Travel Writings in the Eighteenth Century;Views of Henry Cavendish