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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Experiments on air.

Publication Details

Phil. Trans., 74, 119-53. 1784 CE.

Cavendish isolated hydrogen in 1766, and later demonstrated the composition of air.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#925
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/128
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLexperiments-on-air