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His chemical researches were guided by theory too, though the theory was not mathematical. Phlogiston, the central concept of the theory, brought much of the phenomena of chemistry into a system.
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McCormmach, R. (2014). Physical Theory and Theory of Autism. In: The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities. Archimedes, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02438-7_17
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