Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'

By David Philip Miller

Book Overview

The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138258458
• ISBN13: 9781138258457
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"