THE Cambridge edition of the scientific papers of Henry Cavendish is much more than a mere reprint. In 1879 an edition of the electrical researches was published, a work to which Clerk Maxwell ...

This set-up is very similar to the one that Henry Cavendish employed in 1797 to measure the strength of the gravitational force, but its purpose is different. The idea, the team say, would be to ...

At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force ... to scientist Henry Cavendish, using ...