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• 1.万物简史 第79期:敲石头的人们(1)
• 5 THE STONE-BREAKERS 5 敲石头的人们 At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinbur...
• 2.万物简史 第78期:事物的测定(26)
• Delicacy was the key word. Not a whisper of disturbance could be allowed into the room containing the apparatus, so Cavendish took up a position in an...
• 3.万物简史 第77期:事物的测定(25)
• When assembled, Michell's apparatus looked like nothing so much as an eighteenth-century version of a Nautilus weight-training machine. It incorporate...
• 4.万物简史 第76期:事物的测定(24)
• In the course of a long life Cavendish made a string of signal discoveriesamong much else he was the first person to isolate hydrogen and the first to...
• 5.万物简史 第75期:事物的测定(23)
• Although he did sometimes venture into societyhe was particularly devoted to the weekly scientific soires of the great naturalist Sir Joseph Banksit w...
• 6.万物简史 第74期:事物的测定(22)
• In 1781 Herschel became the first person in the modern era to discover a planet. He wanted to call it George, after the British monarch, but was overr...
• 7.万物简史 第73期:事物的测定(21)
• Not everyone was satisfied with the results, however. The shortcoming of the Schiehallion experiment was that it was not possible to get a truly accur...
• 8.万物简史 第72期:事物的测定(20)
• With Mason refusing to survey the mountain, the job fell to Maskelyne. So for four months in the summer of 1774, Maskelyne lived in a tent in a remote...
• 9.万物简史 第71期:事物的测定(19)
• As for Mason and Dixon, they returned to England as scientific heroes and, for reasons unknown, dissolved their partnership. Considering the frequency...
• 10.万物简史 第70期:事物的测定(18)
• Soon afterward, Maskelyne returned to England where he became astronomer royal, and Mason and Dixonnow evidently more seasonedset off for four long an...