“…The English aristocracy knew one of its finest hours when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the scales of the first great precision balance of the century. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) -- Philip of Spain (1527-1598) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1726) -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- John Howard (1726?-1790) -- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) -- Erik Satie (1866-1925) -- Bertrand Russell (1872 -1970) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Bela Bartok (1881-1945) -- Ramanujan (1887-1920) -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) -- Simone Weil (1909-1943) -- Alan Turing (1912-1954) -- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) -- Andy Warhol (1928-1987) -- Glenn Gould (1932-1982)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Montague BERTIE, second earl of Lindsey (1607 or 1608-1666) -- Henry BISHOP (1611-1691) -- Richard BRETT -- Robert BRUCE, second earl of Elgin and first earl of Ailesbury (1626-1685) -- Edmund BUTLER, fourth viscount Mountgarett (d.1679) -- James BUTLER, twelfth earl and first duke of Ormond (1610-1688) -- Henry CAVENDISH, Lord Mansfield (1630-1691) -- Martin CLIFFORD (c.1624-1677) -- Colonel Thomas COLEPEPER (1637-1708) -- James COMPTON, third earl of Northampton (1622-1681) -- John CREW, first baron Crewe of Stene (1598-1679) -- Aubrey DE VERE, twentieth earl of Oxford (1627-1703) -- Sir John ERNLE (c.1620-1697) -- Charles GORING, second earl of Norwich (1615-1671) -- Sir George HAMILTON (c.1608-1679) -- Sir Charles HARBORD (1596-1679) -- Humphrey HENCHMAN, bishop of London (1592-1675) -- Philip HERBERT, fifth earl of Pembroke (1621-1669) -- Sir Frescheville HOLLES (1642-1672) -- Charles HOWARD, first earl of Carlisle (1628-1685) -- Henry JERMYN, earl of St Albans (c.1605-1684) -- Sir William KILLIGREW (1606-1695) -- Sir John MENNES (1599-1671) -- Sir William MEYRICK (d.1669) -- George MONCK, first duke of Albemarle (1608-1670) -- Thomas PAULDEN (b.1625) -- Henry PECK (d.1675) -- Edward PROGERS (1621-1713) -- Henry PROGERS (d.1687) -- Sir Geoffrey SHAKERLEY (1619-1696) -- Gilbert SHELDON, archbishop of Canterbury (1598-1677) -- George VILLIERS, second duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) -- Sir Edmund WARCUP (1627-1712) -- Sir John WERDEN (1640-1716) -- Robert WERDEN (c.1622-1690) -- Sir Ralph WHITFIELD (b.1621) -- Appendix 2 (a). …”