Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities

From the book reviews: "This book will be of most interest to scholars and graduate students in the history and philosophy of scientific psychology. ... The book's peculiarity is that one can achieve great scientific accomplishment and have that accomplishment grow-even within an immersion of personality characteristics that would seem to invite the converse." (Richard W. Bloom, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (8), February, 2015)

• Table of Contents.- List of Illustrations.- Preface.- Part I. He Always Knew What Was Right for Him.- 1. The Person.- 2. Normality, Abnormality, and Scientists.- 3. Everyday Life.- 4. Life of Natural Philosophy.- 5. Aspects of Personality.- 6. Views of Cavendish.- 7. Eccentricity.- 8. Autism.- 9. Conclusion.- Part II. He Saw What Interested Him.- 10. The Traveler.- Appendix 1. Journal of 1785.- Appendix 2. Cavendish and Grey Family Trees.- Appendix 3. Letters between Brothers: Henry and Frederick Cavendish.- Appendix 4. Cavendish’s Houses: Clapham Common and Bedford Square.- Appendix 5. Cavendishes, Lowthers, and Holker Hall.- Appendix 6. Autism.- Appendix 7. Physical Theory and Theory of Autism.- Bibliography.- Index.