Lord KelvinThe life and work of a great scientist. The mathematics and figures are there (reproduced here in their full original beauty) but it is also a life to be read, by anyone, for its delightful enjoy character - enjoy the vivid account of his teaching practices for example! - delightfully told by one of Lord Kelvin's admirers: ""His statement, which has been so often quoted, that after fifty-five years of constant study he knew little more of electricity and magnetism than he did at the beginning of his career... was, like Newton's famous declaration, an indication of his sense of the vastness of the ocean of truth and the manifoldness of the treasures which still lie within its ""deep unfathomed caves."" He had faith that in the end all that appeared dark and perplexing would stand forth in fulness of light"". |
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PARENTAGE AND EARLY EDUCATION | |
CLASSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW FIRST SCIENTIFIC PAPERS | |
THE CHAIR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AT GLASGOW THE FIRST PHYSICAL LABORATORY | |
THE ACCOUNT OF CARNOTS THEORY OF THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT | |
THERMODYNAMICS AND ABSOLUTE THERMOMETRY | |
HYDRODYNAMICSDYNAMICAL THEOREM OF MINIMUM ENERGYVORTEX MOTION | |
THE ENERGY THEORY OF ELECTROLYSISELECTRICAL UNITSELECTRICAL OSCILLATIONS | |
THOMSON AND TAITS NATURAL PHILOSOPHYGYROSTATIC ACTION | |
BRITISH ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON ELECTRICAL STANDARDS | |
SPEED OF TELEGRAPH SIGNALLINGLAYING OF SUBMARINE CABLESTELEGRAPH | |
LORD KELVIN IN HIS CLASSROOM AND LABORATORY | |
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIESHONOURS AND DISTINCTIONSLAST ILLNESS | |
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