Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait

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Рипол Классик, 1911 - 379 páginas
 

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CHAPTER
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Edinburgh 1652 Tait as lecturer 1722 contributions to CzamberrEngropaeazir 23 sketch
35
at Peterhouse 5o Tait Memorial 5051 Sir John Jackson and Sir James Dewar
55
phosphorescent golf balls 57 theory of the golf ball flight 5960 The Bulger 6162
61
meters 6768 Vortex rings 6869 Sir David Brewster 6970 Physical Laboratory 7071
70
W Robertson Smith 7172 Robert Louis Stevenson 7274 James Lindsay 74 Fox Talbot
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meters 8285 expansion of laboratory 8687 hygrometry on Ben Nevis 8788 impact
92
CHAPTER III
98
indebtedness to Tait 166167 the scientific worlds indebtedness to Tait 167168 Treatise
174
quaternions excluded 185 reception of book 186187 description of scope and contents
202
ADDRESSES REVIEWS AND CORRESPONDENCE
246
252 lecture on Force 252253 Maxwells metrical version 253255 lecture on lhunder
252
Maxwells Eleztrzrzb and Jllagnetllrm 258260 Maxwells Jlfuitcr and 11105011 260261 life
270
Cliffords Common Sense lg 15 Exarl Szieures 27 227 3 loincarés Tzerllzozzjlzarizlgzze 27 3276
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McAulays Ufilzly qf Quafrruzour 276278 Tay Bridge disaster 278 controversy with
293
observed by Vince and by Scoresby 321328 Long Driving 329344 Thomsons
344

QUATERNIONS
119
wavesurface 129134 linear vector function 135138 electrodynamics 138 misunder
141
correspondence with Maxwell on Nabla 143152 Maxwells report on Taits quaternion work
149
BIBLIOGRAPHY pp 351365
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INDEX PIL 367379
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