Thomas Edward Thorpe Quotes:
Life: December 8, 1845 - February 23, 1925
Birthday: December 8
Death: February 23
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water-each and all came within the range of his observations.
source: Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1894). “Essays in Historical Chemistry”
