Deconstructing discovery: David Philip Miller, Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Water Controversy’. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)

Ben Marsden

doi:10.1098/rsnr.2005.0122

Deconstructing discovery: David Philip Miller, Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Water Controversy’. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)

Ben Marsden

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This is an admirable book. Readers who successfully negotiate its subtle analysis and its extended interlinked case studies will learn much about what scientific ‘discovery’ has meant and much about what two very different ‘discoverers’—James Watt and Henry Cavendish—could be made to signify in mid-nineteenth-century scientific culture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	105-106
Number of pages	2
Journal	Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London
Volume	60
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2005.0122
Publication status	Published - 22 Jan 2006

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Deconstructing discovery: David Philip Miller, Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Water Controversy’. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). / Marsden, Ben.
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