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First published in 1873, this co-authored biography of the Scottish
physicist, Alpine explorer, and university leader James David
Forbes (1809 1868) includes extracts from Forbes' letters. John
Campbell Shairp, Forbes' successor as principal of the United
College of the University of St Andrews, writes of Forbes'
personal, family, and professional life, including his years at St
Andrews. Forbes' student and his successor in the Natural
Philosophy chair at the University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie
Tait, himself an accomplished mathematical physicist who co-wrote,
with Lord Kelvin, Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867), discusses
Forbes' scientific achievements and contributions. A. Adams-Reilly,
a celebrated Irish mountaineer, cartographer, and friend of Forbes,
writes of the latter's Alpine travels and his work and interest in
glaciers. In Shairp's words, in addition to all of his academic
accomplishments, Forbes was also Britain's 'father of Alpine
adventure'.
'The term 'natural philosophy' was used by Newton, and is still
used in British Universities, to denote the investigation of laws
in the material world, and the deduction of results not directly
observed.' This definition, from the Preface to the second edition
of 1879, defines the proposed scope of the work: the two volumes
reissued here are the only completed part of a survey of the
entirety of the physical sciences by Lord Kelvin and his fellow
Scot, Peter Guthrie Tait, first published in 1867. Although the
partnership ceased after eighteen years of collaboration, the
published books, containing chapters on kinematics, dynamics and
statics, had a great influence on the development of physics in the
second half of the nineteenth century.
'The term 'natural philosophy' was used by Newton, and is still
used in British Universities, to denote the investigation of laws
in the material world, and the deduction of results not directly
observed.' This definition, from the Preface to the second edition
of 1879, defines the proposed scope of the work: the two volumes
reissued here are the only completed part of a survey of the
entirety of the physical sciences by Lord Kelvin and his fellow
Scot, Peter Guthrie Tait, first published in 1867. Although the
partnership ceased after eighteen years of collaboration, the
published books, containing chapters on kinematics, dynamics and
statics, had a great influence on the development of physics in the
second half of the nineteenth century.
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The Unseen Universe
Balfour, Stewart,; Created by Peter Guthrie Tait
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R689
Discovery Miles 6 890
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