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Weighing the World: The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill - Archimedes
Russell McCormmach
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.
490 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography
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