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Memoir of James Prescott Joule (Paperback)
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Memoir of James Prescott Joule (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
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In this first biography of the physicist Sir James Prescott Joule
(1818-1889), his friend and collaborator Osborne Reynolds
(1842-1912), Professor of Engineering at Owens College, Manchester,
is keen to show how Joule, the son of a prosperous Salford brewer,
was an 'ordinary' boy, enjoying regular walking trips to Snowdon,
the Peaks and the Lakes; at the same time, he was greatly
influenced by two years of tuition by John Dalton. His later
experiments, observations and published papers are discussed and
quoted at length. Reynolds stresses the influence Joule's work on
heat and thermodynamics had on his contemporaries, but also that
this 'amateur' scientist was often so far ahead of his time that
his work was misunderstood or dismissed. Since publication of this
book in 1892, only one other biography of Joule has appeared, and
so it remains a vital source of first-hand information on his life
and work.
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