Book ID: CBB000951556

Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy (2008)

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Flood, Raymond (Editor)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xii + 358 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Petrunic, Josipa G. (2009) Review of "Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy". Historia Mathematica (p. 439). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wise, M. Norton
Burke, Katie
Chang, Hasok
Craik, Alex D. D.
Dias, Penha Maria Cardoso
Fara, Patricia
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
American Scientist
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
DVT, Dějiny věd a techniky
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Publishers
Joseph Henry Press
Princeton University Press
Simon & Schuster
University College Press
Concepts
Physics
Thermodynamics
Biographies
Measurement
Science and religion
Science and technology, relationships
People
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph
Maxwell, James Clerk
Stokes, George Gabriel
Angstrom, Anders Jonas
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Ireland
British Isles
Scotland
England
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