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cavendish-1798 · texasgateway2024gravity
- Citation
- texasgateway2024gravity
- Claim ID
- cavendish-1798
- Assertion
- Newton's gravitational constant G was first measured experimentally by Henry Cavendish in 1798 using a torsion-balance apparatus, more than 100 years after Newton published his law of universal gravitation.
- Quote
This definition was first done accurately in 1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), more than 100 years after Newton published his universal law of gravitation.
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