The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and
longest part is biographical, an account of Michell's home setting
(Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew
up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied
and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his
life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters.
Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other
half are brought together in one place for the first time. The
letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in
his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications
were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on
geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other
topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences.
He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist,
which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher,
as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific
contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest
competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth
century: equally skilled in experiment and observation,
mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the
universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure
of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter,
he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings
of nature.
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