McCormmach & Jungnickel 1996 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), p.336: A 1783 letter from Cavendish to Michell contains '...the earliest mention of weighing the world'. Not clear whether 'earliest mention' refers to Cavendish or Michell.
Cavendish 1798 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), p.59 Cavendish gives full credit to Michell for devising the experiment
Cavendish 1798 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), p. 99, Result table, (scale graduations = 1⁄20 in ≈ 1.3 mm) The total deflection shown in most trials was twice this since he compared the deflection with large balls on opposite sides of the balance beam.
Halliday, David; Resnick, Robert. Fundamentals of Physics. John Wiley & Sons. 1993: 418 [2013-12-30]. ISBN 978-0-471-14731-2. 'The apparatus used in 1798 by Henry Cavendish to measure the gravitational constant'
Feynman, Richard P. Lectures on Physics, Vol.1. Addison-Wesley: 6–7. 1963. ISBN 0-201-02116-1. 'Cavendish claimed he was weighing the Earth, but what he was measuring was the coefficient G...'
Feynman, Richard P. The Character of Physical Law. MIT Press: 28. 1967. ISBN 0-262-56003-8. 'Cavendish was able to measure the force, the two masses, and the distance, and thus determine the gravitational constant G.'
McCormmach & Jungnickel 1996 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), p.336: A 1783 letter from Cavendish to Michell contains '...the earliest mention of weighing the world'. Not clear whether 'earliest mention' refers to Cavendish or Michell.
Cavendish 1798 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), p.59 Cavendish gives full credit to Michell for devising the experiment
Cavendish 1798 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), p. 99, Result table, (scale graduations = 1⁄20 in ≈ 1.3 mm) The total deflection shown in most trials was twice this since he compared the deflection with large balls on opposite sides of the balance beam.