Editing Cavendish experiment (section)

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* {{cite journal | author=Boys, C. Vernon | title=On the Newtonian constant of gravitation | journal=Nature | year=1894 | volume=50 | issue=1292 | pages=330–334 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrloHemOmUEC&pg=PA353 | doi=10.1038/050330a0 | bibcode=1894Natur..50..330. | accessdate=2013-12-30 | doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Cavendish | first=Henry | title=Experiments to Determine the Density of the Earth | year=1798 | journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society| volume=88 |pages=469–526 | doi=10.1098/rstl.1798.0022| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | author = Clotfelter, B. E. | title = The Cavendish experiment as Cavendish knew it | journal = American Journal of Physics | year = 1987 | volume = 55 | issue = 3 | pages = 210&ndash;213 | doi = 10.1119/1.15214|bibcode = 1987AmJPh..55..210C }} Establishes that Cavendish didn't determine G.
* {{cite journal | author = Falconer, Isobel | title = Henry Cavendish: the man and the measurement | journal = Measurement Science and Technology | year = 1999 | volume = 10 | issue = 6 | pages = 470&ndash;477 | doi = 10.1088/0957-0233/10/6/310 |bibcode = 1999MeScT..10..470F | s2cid = 250862938 }}
* {{cite web | last=Hodges | first=Laurent | year=1999 | title=The Michell-Cavendish Experiment, faculty website, Iowa State Univ. | url=http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lhodges/Michell.htm | accessdate=2013-12-30 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906134148/http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lhodges/Michell.htm | archive-date=2017-09-06 | url-status=dead }} Discusses Michell's contributions, and whether Cavendish determined G.
* {{cite book
 | last2 = McCormmach
 | first2 = Russell|author2-link= Russell McCormmach
 | last1 = Jungnickel
 | first1 = Christa|author1-link= Christa Jungnickel
 | title = Cavendish
 | location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 | publisher = [[American Philosophical Society]]
 | year = 1996
 | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_EUoLAAAAIAAJ
 | isbn = 978-0-87169-220-7
 | accessdate = 2013-12-30
 }}
* {{cite journal | author = Lally, Sean P. | title = Henry Cavendish and the Density of the Earth | journal = The Physics Teacher | year = 1999 | volume = 37 | issue = 1 | pages = 34&ndash;37 | bibcode=1999PhTea..37...34L | doi = 10.1119/1.880145}}
* {{cite book | last=Poynting | first=John H. | title=The Mean Density of the Earth: An essay to which the Adams prize was adjudged in 1893 | year=1894 | publisher=C. Griffin & Co. | location=London | url=https://archive.org/details/meandensityeart00poyngoog | accessdate=2013-12-30 }} Review of gravity measurements since 1740.
*{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Gravitation |volume=12 |pages=384–389|first=John Henry|last=Poynting|author-link=John Henry Poynting}}{{refend}}