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London: Peter Elmsly, 1798. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (292 x 235 mm). Entire volume (part II) offered: v [1], [1] 202-598, [8] pp., 17 folding engraved plates, folding table. All pages uncut and mostly unopened. Original blue wrappers (paper dust-soiled, paper over spine mostly gone, edges slightly frayed). Text and plates with light even browning, some dust-soiling to outer margins, p. 495/6 creased at lower corner. Provenance: Benjamin Hyett Esq. A very good, completely unsophisticated copy. ---- Norman 422, DSB III, p.158. - First Edition of Cavendish's account of the celebrated experiment in which he determined the density of the earth on the basis of the gravitational attraction between the movable and stationary lead balls in John Michell's torsion balance, and attained the first laboratory measurement of "G," the Newtonian constant of gravitation. "By weighing the world he rendered the law of gravitation complete. The law was…
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The original Japanese instruments: 1500000000 taste square the secret su ru a department stores in China. Tianjin Isetan (Unit this)(Chinese Edition)(Old-Used) Paperback -
by DAO YE LI YAN ( ZHU )
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- Title The original Japanese instruments: 1500000000 taste square the secret su ru a department stores in China. Tianjin Isetan (Unit this)(Chinese Edition)(Old-Used)
- Author DAO YE LI YAN ( ZHU )
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Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 88, Part II, for the year 1798, pp. 469-526, 2 folding engraved plates
by CAVENDISH, Henry
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