Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord KelvinThis 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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Contents
Clydeside 220 | 21 |
A Cambridge undergraduate | 56 |
The changing tradition of natural philosophy | 83 |
Professor William Thomson | 117 |
The language of mathematical physics | 149 |
The kinematics of field theory and the nature of electricity | 203 |
work ponderomotive force and extremum | 237 |
the years of uncertainty | 282 |
The age of the sun controversies | 524 |
The secular cooling of the earth | 552 |
The age of the earth controversies | 579 |
The habitation of earth | 612 |
The telegraphic art | 649 |
the economics of electricity | 684 |
the art of navigation | 723 |
The magnetic compass | 754 |
the years of resolution | 317 |
TT or Treatise on Natural Philosophy | 348 |
The hydrodynamics of matter | 396 |
Thomson versus Maxwell | 445 |
The irreversible cosmos | 497 |
Baron Kelvin of Largs | 799 |
| 815 | |
| 838 | |
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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin Crosbie Smith,M. Norton Wise Limited preview - 1989 |
Energy and Empire 2 Volume Set: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin Crosbie Smith,M. Norton Wise No preview available - 2009 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin |
| Authors | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0521261732, 9780521261739 |
| Length | 866 pages |
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