Energy and Empire 2 Volume Paperback Set: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

by Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise

Book Overview

Energy and Empire is a definitive biographical study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of nineteenth-century Britain. As part of this study, it delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science, that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it. Born into a family committed to liberal political reform and personal advancement, William Thomson identified himself as much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521129214
• ISBN13: 9780521129213
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 892 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"