Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3527. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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English chemist and physicist. Cavendish used a sensitive torsion
balance (the Cavendish balance), which was made to oscillate under the
gravitational force of attraction of large masses, to measure the value
of the gravitational constant, G, and used his value to determine the
mass of the Earth....

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