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Taking Cavendish Road out of Hamilton leads to Middle Road, which runs through the widest section of land in Bermuda.
Cavendish was much closer to his own mark: in 1766 he isolated hydrogen, which he correctly perceived as a building block of water ( hydro- being the oblique stem of Greek hyder , water).
Although the four-elements paradigm remained robust throughout antiquity and through the Middle Ages (during which a mystical tradition emerged proposing a fifth element, ruling the others, the socalled quintessence ), atomism fell out of favor for nearly two millennia until the quantitative philosophy of the early Enlightenment created a conceptual environment friendly to the metamorphosis of alchemy, through the chemical experiments of Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Joseph Priestley, Henry Cavendish, Antoine Lavoisier and others, into something like the chemistry we were all taught in high school.
The cross remained during the Spanish conquest and even survived an attempt to destroy it by the pirate Cavendish.
Cavendish eventually captured the Nao (1587) and got away with 1.2 million in gold.