became Uranus.
it o vacancy.” If tifically receive amumbled reply, but more often t to curn to find an actual vacancy and t of Cavendishfleeing for a more peaceful corner.
ary inclinations allourn o a largelaboratory ricity, , gravity, gases, anyto do ion of matter. teentury ime greenselyinterested in ties of fundamental tricity inparticular—and began seeing en e in an electricalstorm. In France, a c named Pilatre de Rozier tested ty of a stroke t ible and t eyebro necessarily a permanent feature ofone’s face. Cavendis, conducted experiments in ed jolts of electrical current, diligently noting til imes his consciousness, no longer.
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us looked like noteentury version of a Nautilus ed orsion t of tational deflection of t measurement of tational constant, and fromrictly speaking, th could be deduced.
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