Talk:Henry Cavendish
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Er, is this still a stub? I'm not quite clear when stubs graduate, but this seems pretty complete. Thoughts? Mashford 21:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Cavendish is also credited with one of the earliest accurate calculations of the density of the earth. It would be good to give the density of the earth then! How can we call this fairly complete if one of the guy's main achievements in life was to calculate something which we don't specify. I came here to know the earth's average density (not including the atmosphere), and the one web page most likely to contain the info seems to be missing it. 172.206.159.143 19:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Endowment of Cavendish Laboratory
"He left a large estate on his death which was used to endow the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University in 1871."--This appears to be in conflict with text at Cavendish Laboratory and at William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire. Jim 21:30, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
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I have changed the section "Earth's mass" because there were some mistakes
His measurement of the earth's mass was accepted until the 17th century? Really? Isn't that, what, 40 odd years before he was born?
You are correct; that is an error. It should read 20th century. I'm correcting it. The wrong century appears in reference.com, which likely took the text from Wikipedia. The correct century appears in other works. Snezzy 12:33, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
