- Hardcover: 898 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; illustrated edition edition (26 Oct 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521261732
- ISBN-13: 978-0521261739
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 6.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,326,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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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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Lord Kelvin, revered and respected statesman of science in the golden age of late nineteenth-century British Imperialism, began life not in Great Britain, but in Ireland. Read the first page
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Lord Kelvin, revered and respected statesman of science in the golden age of late nineteenth-century British Imperialism, began life not in Great Britain, but in Ireland. Read the first page
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