Author: Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Lord Kelvin's Address on the Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life
Author: Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Lord Kelvin's Address on the Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life
Author: Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
On Lord Kelvin's Address on the Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life
Author: Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
On Lord Kelvin's Address on the Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life, by Prof. T. C. Chamberlain...
Author: T. C. ChamberlainLord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Author: Joe D. BurchfieldPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226080269
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists. "Anyone interested in geologic time, and that should include all geologists and a fair smattering of biologists, physicists and chemists, should make Burchfield's commendable and time-tested volume part of their personal library"—Brent Darymple, Quartely Review of Biology
The Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life. By the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin,...
Author: William Thomson baron KelvinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Life of Lord Kelvin
Author: Silvanus Phillips ThompsonPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821837443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
A biography of Lord Kelvin, that includes Kelvin's personal recollections and data. It lets the documents and letters speak as far as possible for themselves.
Kelvin, Thermodynamics and the Natural World
Author: M.W. CollinsPublisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1845641493
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
This volume looks afresh at the life and works of Lord Kelvin including his standing and relationships with Charles Darwin, T. S Huxley and the X-club, thereby throwing new light on the nineteenth-century conflict between the British energy and biology specialists. It focuses on two principal issues. Firstly, there is the contribution made by Kelvin to the formulation of the Laws of Thermodynamics, both personal and in the content of the scientific communications exchanged with other workers, such as Joule and Clausius. Secondly, there is Kelvin’s impact on the wider field of science such as thermoelectricity and geology (determination of the age of the earth). Of late a number of studies and initiatives, including the Centenary celebrations of Kelvin’s death and exhibits such as that of the ‘Revolutionary Scientist’ in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, have been undertaken aiding the redefinition of Kelvin’s greatness and achievements. The book also raises awareness to ‘improve our approach to the teaching of elementary thermodynamics by attempting to empathise with Kelvin’s perspective’. It is completed by a full biography, overviews of various monuments to his memory, and short ‘Stories in Pictures’ on the Atlantic cable, Maxwell’s Demon, the universities associated with the development of thermodynamics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Scientists and engineers with an interest in thermodynamics and anyone interested in the work of Lord Kelvin will find benefit in Kelvin, Thermodynamics and the Natural World.
Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain
Author: Victoria Institute (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion and science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Each volume includes list of members, and "objects of the institute" (except v. 31, which has no list of members). Beginning with v. 12, a list of the papers contained in preceding volumes is issued regularly with each volume.
Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy
Author: Raymond FloodPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199231257
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not to mention inventions such as an improved maritime compass and a sounding device which allowed depths to be taken both quickly and while the ship was moving. He was an academic engaged in fundamental research, while also working with industry and technological advances. He corresponded and collaborated with other eminent men of science such as Stokes, Joule, Maxwell and Helmholtz, was raised to the peerage as a result of his contributions to science, and finally buried in Westminster Abbey next to Newton. This book contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, covering the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).