Popular Lectures and Addresses 3 Volume Set Mixed media product
by William Thomson
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences series
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William Thomson, Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge.
While only in his twenties, he was awarded the University of Glasgow's chair in natural philosophy, which he was to hold for over fifty years.
He is best known through the Kelvin, the unit of measurement of temperature named after him in consequence of his development of an absolute scale of temperature.
These volumes, published between 1889 and 1894, collect together Kelvin's lectures for a wider audience.
In a convivial but never condescending style, he outlines a range of scientific subjects to audiences of his fellow scientists.
The range of topics covered reflects Kelvin's broad interests and his stature as one of the most eminent of Victorian scientists.
Volume 1 covers topics on physics, Volume 2 (actually published last) geology, and Volume 3 the science of the oceans.
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- Pages:1628 pages, 1 Plates, black and white; 116 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781108029803
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:1628 pages, 1 Plates, black and white; 116 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781108029803
