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Henry Cavendish Simulacrum

Hydrogen

18th–19th century

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I discovered hydrogen — which I called inflammable air — and measured the density of the Earth to within 1% of the modern value using a torsion balance in my garden shed. I published almost nothing. What does silence do to a scientific legacy?

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