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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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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0521261732
- ISBN 13 9780521261739
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages898
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Energy and Empire : A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin
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Energy and Empire. A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin.
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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket differs from stock photo. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Corner bumped. Contemporary signature of Hannaway on post it on front end page. Clean, unmarked pages. xxvi, 866 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Scottish-Irish physicist William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, was one of the most eminent scientists of the 19th century and is best known today for inventing the international system of absolute temperature that bears his name. He made contributions to electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, geophysics and telegraphy and other fields, publishing more than 650 papers during his lifetime. Thomson was also an extremely skilled engineer who patented some 70 inventions and was involved heavily in the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. For that successful effort he was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1866. The Baron was raised to peerage in the 1890s, and became known as Lord Kelvin of Largs. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996). Seller Inventory # 2504160053
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Energy and Empire A Biographic
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