Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord KelvinCambridge University Press, 26/10/1989 - 866 من الصفحات This 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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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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