Research Catalog

Title

Kelvin : life, labours and legacy / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Flood, Raymond.
• McCartney, Mark, 1967-
• Whitaker, Andrew, 1946-

Description

xii, 358 p. : ill,; 25 cm.

Summary

This work contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, which cover the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907
• Physicists > Great Britain
• Physics > History > 19th century
• Thermodynamica
• Natuurkundigen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-345) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

William Thomson : an introductory biography / Mark McCartney -- Educating William : Belfast, Glasgow, and Cambridge / Alex D.D. Craik -- On the early work of William Thomason : mathematical physics and methodology in the 1840s / I. Grattan-Guinness -- James Thomson and the culture of a Victorian engineer / Peter Bowler -- Fifty-eight years of friendship : Kelvin and Stokes / Alastair Wood -- Kelvin and Fitzgerlad : great Irish physicists / Denis Weaire -- Concepts and models of the magnetic field / John Roche -- 'A dynamical form of mechanical effect' : Thomson's thermodynamics / Iwan Rhys Morus -- Kelvin and engineering / Bernard Crossland -- William Thomson's determinations of the age of the earth / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson -- Thomson and Tait : the Treatise on natural philosophy / Raymond Flood -- Kelvin on atoms and molecules / Elizabeth Garber -- Kelvin and the development of science in Meiji, Japan / Colin Latimer -- Kelvin, Maxwell, Einstein and the ether : who was right about what? / C.W. Francis Everitt -- Kelvin and statistical mechanics / Oliver Penrose -- Kelvin : the legacy / Andrew Whitaker.

ISBN

• 9780199231256 (hbk.)
• 0199231257 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2008411464

OCLC

• 166625002
• SCSB-9922582

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library