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100 1 _aMcCormmach, Russell.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWeighing the World
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Reverend John Michell of Thornhill /
_cby Russell McCormmach.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2012.
300 _aXVII, 488p. 52 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
_x1385-0180 ;
_v28
505 0 _aList of Illustrations.-  Preface and Acknowledgments.-  Michell’s Life and Work.-  Home.-  Cambridge -- Early Researches.-  Transitions.-Thornhill --  Late Researches.- Michell’s Letters Editorial Note --   List of Letter -- Letters -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aScience
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 1 4 _aScience, general.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Science.
650 2 4 _aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Philosophy.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2022-0
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