Energy and empire : a biographical study of Lord Kelvin

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Energy and empire : a biographical study of Lord Kelvin

Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 815-837

Includes index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Footnote abbreviations
  • Part I. The Making of the Natural Philosopher: 1. From the ashes of revolution
  • 2. Clydeside
  • 3. A Cambridge undergraduate
  • 4. The changing tradition of natural philosophy
  • 5. Professor William Thomson
  • Part II. The Transformation of Classical Physics: 6. The language of mathematical physics
  • 7. The kinematics of field theory and the nature of electricity
  • 8. The dynamics of field theory: work, ponderomotive force, and extremum conditions
  • 9. Thermodynamics: the years of uncertainty
  • 10. Thermodynamics: the years of resolution
  • 11. T & T' of treatise on natural philosophy
  • 12. The hydrodynamics of matter
  • 13. Telegraph signals and light waves
  • Thomson versus Maxwell
  • Part III. The Economy of Nature: The Economy of Nature: The Great Storehouse of Creation: 14. The irreversible cosmos
  • 15. The age of the sun controversies
  • 16. The secular cooling of the earth
  • 17. The age of the earth controversies
  • 18. The habitation of earth
  • Part IV. Energy, Economy, and Empire: The Relief of Man's Estate: 19. The telegraphic art
  • 20. Measurement and marketing: the economics of electricity
  • 21. Rule, Britannia: the art of navigation
  • 22. The magnetic compass
  • 23. Baron Kelvin of Largs
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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