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Charles Blagden assisted this scientist in measuring the height of Garth Hill with a tripod barometer. This scientist criticized the term “latent heat,” but used it in the manuscript, “Heat,” which, like this scientist’s discovery of Ohm’s law, was published posthumously. This non-French scientist observed the output of a device inherited from John Michell (“me-SHELL”) by using a telescope to read Vernier (“ver-NYAY”) scales through a hole. Cambridge’s Department of Physics is named for this scientist who identified (*) “inflammable air” (10[1])that was later realized to be (10[1])pure hydrogen. For 10 points, name this English scientist who used a (10[1])torsion balance (10[2])to measure (10[1])the Earth’s (10[1])density, (10[4])indirectly making (10[1])the first measurement of the gravitational constant. (10[1])■END■ (10[9])

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