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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, R.F.S., Written Between 1771 and 1781 |
| Author | Henry Cavendish |
| Editor | James Clerk Maxwell |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1879 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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