LECTURES ON PHYSICAL SCIENCE

LECTURES

ON SOME

RECENT ADVANCES

IN

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

WITH A SPECIAL LECTURE ON

FORCE

BY

P. G. TAIT, M.A.

FORMERLY FELLOW OF ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

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Edinburgh University Press: THOMAS AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY.

WITH THIS WORK

I DESIRE TO ASSOCIATE THE NAMES

OF

GEORGE BARCLAY AND THOMAS STEVENSON,

FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH,

BY WHOSE EFFORTS THESE LECTURES WERE ORGANISED,

AND AT WHOSE WISH THEY ARE PUBLISHED AS DELIVERED.

P. G. T.

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