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Weighing the World: The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill (Archimedes) by Russell McCormmach [Repost]

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Weighing the World: The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill (Archimedes) by Russell McCormmach [Repost]

Weighing the World: The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill (Archimedes) by Russell McCormmach
English | Dec 7, 2011 | ISBN: 9400720211 | 498 Pages | PDF | 4 MB

The 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.