Kelvin and Stokes, a Comparative Study in Victorian Physics

by David B. Wilson

Kelvin and Stokes were key members of that nineteenth-century group of British physicists which ranks as one of the most important collections of scientists in the whole history of science. Almost exact contemporaries, they were friends whose ideas and careers intertwined for over half a century, as documented by their surviving correspondence of over 650 letters. Both were seminal figures in the history of physics and in the history of Victorian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852745265
• ISBN13: 9780852745267
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 272 Pages