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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Page viii
... practical , and professional emphasis of Glasgow liberalism . Father and son Economy in all things , avoidance of waste and dissipation , epitomize the moral and social virtues that Dr Thomson constantly stressed . Towards graduation ...
... practical , and professional emphasis of Glasgow liberalism . Father and son Economy in all things , avoidance of waste and dissipation , epitomize the moral and social virtues that Dr Thomson constantly stressed . Towards graduation ...
Page ix
... practical imperative 228 The kinematics of field theory exhibits methodological and ideological commitments typical of the Thomson family in its Glasgow context . 8 The dynamics of field theory : work , ponderomotive force , and ...
... practical imperative 228 The kinematics of field theory exhibits methodological and ideological commitments typical of the Thomson family in its Glasgow context . 8 The dynamics of field theory : work , ponderomotive force , and ...
Page x
... practical abstractions not microscopic models . Kinematics 360 Geometry of motion and practical mechanisms for generating motion form a unified subject in the kinematics of T & T ' . The background to dynamics 372 Little agreement ...
... practical abstractions not microscopic models . Kinematics 360 Geometry of motion and practical mechanisms for generating motion form a unified subject in the kinematics of T & T ' . The background to dynamics 372 Little agreement ...
Page xi
... practical foundation in James Thomson's vortex turbines and vortex pumps . Vortex atoms 417 From 1867 , drawing on Helmholtz's mathematical work and Tait's experimental demonstrations , Thomson turned his full powers to vortex atoms ...
... practical foundation in James Thomson's vortex turbines and vortex pumps . Vortex atoms 417 From 1867 , drawing on Helmholtz's mathematical work and Tait's experimental demonstrations , Thomson turned his full powers to vortex atoms ...
Page xiv
... practical problems of compass correction 763 Controversy and distrust surrounded the subject in the 1850s . Sir William Thomson's patent compass 770 From 1871 Thomson worked out ideal theoretical conditions for a magnetic compass and ...
... practical problems of compass correction 763 Controversy and distrust surrounded the subject in the 1850s . Sir William Thomson's patent compass 770 From 1871 Thomson worked out ideal theoretical conditions for a magnetic compass and ...
Contents
While professor of mathematics at this radical latitudinarian institution | 10 |
Clydeside | 27 |
Dr Thomsons family | 49 |
A Cambridge undergraduate | 57 |
The changing tradition of natural philosophy | 87 |
A changing context for both natural and social philosophy in the 1830s | 99 |
89 | 116 |
The language of mathematical physics | 163 |
Thomson versus Maxwell | 445 |
The irreversible cosmos | 497 |
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 |
During the 1830s the reformers recaptured traditional British emphases | 639 |
The telegraphic art | 649 |
The kinematics of field theory and the nature of electricity | 203 |
Opposing styles and a skewed reception | 225 |
work ponderomotive force and extremum | 237 |
the years of uncertainty | 282 |
the years of resolution | 317 |
TT or Treatise on Natural Philosophy | 348 |
The hydrodynamics of matter | 396 |
the economics of electricity | 684 |
the art of navigation | 723 |
The magnetic compass | 754 |
Baron Kelvin of Largs | 799 |
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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin Crosbie Smith,M. Norton Wise Limited preview - 1989 |
Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin Crosbie Smith,Matthew Norton Wise No preview available - 2009 |
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