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Henry Cavendish (1731 1810), the grandson of the second duke of
Devonshire, wrote papers on electrical topics for the Royal
Society, but the majority of his electrical experiments did not
become known until they were collected and published by James Clerk
Maxwell a century later, in 1879, long after other scientists had
been credited with the same results. Among Cavendish's discoveries
were the concept of electric potential, which he called the 'degree
of electrification'; an early unit of capacitance, that of a sphere
one inch in diameter; the formula for the capacitance of a plate
capacitor; the concept of the dielectric constant of a material;
the relationship between electric potential and current, now called
Ohm's Law; laws for the division of current in parallel circuits,
now attributed to Charles Wheatstone; and the inverse square law of
variation of electric force with distance, now called Coulomb's
Law.
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hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879,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 1 is a
revised edition of James Clerk Maxwell's 1879 volume Electrical
Researches of Henry Cavendish, also reissued in this series.
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hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879,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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