CAVENDISH, HENRY (1731-1810)]. MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879) and Sir Edward THORPE, editors . The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. Revised by Sir Joseph Larmor . Cambridge: University Press, 1921. 2 volumes, 4 o (273 x 184 mm). Original red cloth, spines gilt-lettered (spine ends slightly bumped); uncut. Provenance : Failey (small ink stamp on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION OF VOLUME 2; second edition of Volume 1. Cavendish was a perfectionist, and did not publish anything with which he was not fully satisfied. This applied to the great majority of his work: no books, and fewer than 20 articles were published during a career of over fifty years. These reflected only his interest in experimental and chemical research, although the numerous manuscripts found after his death revealed that "he carried on experimental, observational, and mathematical researches in literally all of the physical sciences of his day" (DSB). "Fragments of his unpublished work were gradually revealed throughout the nineteenth century, culminating in James Clerk Maxwell's great edition of Cavendish's electrical researches in 1879" (DSB). The present edition includes a second volume of papers on subjects other than electricity, intended as a complement to Maxwell's volume. (2)
CAVENDISH, HENRY (1731-1810)]. MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879) and Sir Edward THORPE, editors . The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. Revised by Sir Joseph Larmor . Cambridge: University Press, 1921. 2 volumes, 4 o (273 x 184 mm). Original red cloth, spines gilt-lettered (spine ends slightly bumped); uncut. Provenance : Failey (small ink stamp on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION OF VOLUME 2; second edition of Volume 1. Cavendish was a perfectionist, and did not publish anything with which he was not fully satisfied. This applied to the great majority of his work: no books, and fewer than 20 articles were published during a career of over fifty years. These reflected only his interest in experimental and chemical research, although the numerous manuscripts found after his death revealed that "he carried on experimental, observational, and mathematical researches in literally all of the physical sciences of his day" (DSB). "Fragments of his unpublished work were gradually revealed throughout the nineteenth century, culminating in James Clerk Maxwell's great edition of Cavendish's electrical researches in 1879" (DSB). The present edition includes a second volume of papers on subjects other than electricity, intended as a complement to Maxwell's volume. (2)
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