This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.
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This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.
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Lord Kelvin, revered and respected statesman of science in the golden age of late nineteenth-century British Imperialism, began life not in Great Britain, but in Ireland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stokes correspondence, ten inch compass, meteoric theory, consistentior status, total mechanical effect, pianoforte wire, heat doctrine, ether lattice, natural philosophy class, natural philosophy chair, tidal retardation, geological reform, quadrantal deviation, labouring force, universal dissipation, heat analogy, heeling error, abode fitted, elevatory force, quadrantal error, sounding machine, contiguous action, mechanical antecedents, secular cooling, heat flow analogy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Thomson, Sir William, James Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British Association, Glasgow College, Archibald Smith, Royal Soc, William Whewell, Lalla Rookh, Lewis Gordon, William Hopkins, Fleeming Jenkin, Home Rule, William Bottomley, Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Thomson, Glasgow University, New York, Robert Napier, Great Eastern, Dublin Math, Agnes Gall, Elizabeth King, Charles Darwin New!
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Lord Kelvin, revered and respected statesman of science in the golden age of late nineteenth-century British Imperialism, began life not in Great Britain, but in Ireland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stokes correspondence, ten inch compass, meteoric theory, consistentior status, total mechanical effect, pianoforte wire, heat doctrine, ether lattice, natural philosophy class, natural philosophy chair, tidal retardation, geological reform, quadrantal deviation, labouring force, universal dissipation, heat analogy, heeling error, abode fitted, elevatory force, quadrantal error, sounding machine, contiguous action, mechanical antecedents, secular cooling, heat flow analogy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Thomson, Sir William, James Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British Association, Glasgow College, Archibald Smith, Royal Soc, William Whewell, Lalla Rookh, Lewis Gordon, William Hopkins, Fleeming Jenkin, Home Rule, William Bottomley, Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Thomson, Glasgow University, New York, Robert Napier, Great Eastern, Dublin Math, Agnes Gall, Elizabeth King, Charles Darwin New!
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- From Watt to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age (History of Science and Technology Reprint Series) by Donald S. L. Cardwell on 6 pages
- Early Victorian Cambridge (Academic Profession Series) by D. A. Winstanley on page 77, and Back Matter
- The National Physical Laboratory: A History by Edward C. Pyatt on page 686, and Back Matter
- Life on Earth: Its Origin and Succession (History of Paleontology) by John Phillips on page 562, and Back Matter
- Engineering at Cambridge University 1783-1965 by Hilken on page 367, and Back Matter
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- Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography by Michael Shortland in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 83
- Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science by Diana Kormos Barkan on page 14, and Back Matter
- Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy by Martin H. Krieger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Entropy (Princeton Studies in Applied Mathematics) by Andreas Greven on page 146, and Back Matter
- Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing by Harvey Leff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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