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Harré Some Nineteenth Century British Scientists
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4831-5315-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
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The Commonwealth and International Library: Science and Society
E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Web PDF
ISBN: 978-1-4831-5315-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Some Nineteenth Century British Scientists presents the biographies of eight British scientists who represent the state of science in the second half of the Victorian era: Charles Wyville Thomson, James Murray, Arthur Cayley, Francis Galton, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Norman Lockyer, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, and William Ramsay. This book is comprised of seven chapters and begins by focusing on the contributions and achievements of Charles Wyville Thomson in the fields of natural history, marine biology, and deep-sea exploration, especially his expedition aboard H.M.S. Challenger, and of James Murray in oceanography. Subsequent chapters discuss the works of Arthur Cayley (mathematics), Francis Galton (exploration, anthropology, and eugenics), and William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (mathematical physics). The achievements of Norman Lockyer (astrophysics), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (inventor of the Thomas-Gilchrist process for eliminating phosphorus in the Bessemer converter), and William Ramsay (chemistry) are also considered. This monograph will be a useful resource for students and scientists alike.
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1;Front Cover;1
2;Some Nineteenth Century British Scientists;4
3;Copyright Page ;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;INTRODUCTION;8
6;CHAPTER 1. SIR CHARLES WYVILLE THOMSON (1820–1882) SIR JAMES MURRAY (1841–1914) The Challenger Expedition;10
7;CHAPTER 2. ARTHUR CAYLEY (1821–1895);40
7.1;Invariants and Covariante;44
7.2;Invariance and Geometry;50
7.3;Projective Geometry and the Concept of Distance;61
7.4;Invariance after Cayley;66
7.5;Cayley's Theory of Matrices, and Other Work in Pure Mathematics and Astronomy;67
7.6;Cayley's Return to Cambridge;72
8;CHAPTER 3. SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822–1910);74
9;CHAPTER 4. WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN (1824–1907);105
9.1;Kelvin's Mathematics;120
9.2;Thermodynamics (i);121
9.3;Electromagnetism (i);123
9.4;Thermodynamics (ii);126
9.5;Electromagnetic Theory (ii);136
10;CHAPTER 5. SIR NORMAN LOCKYER (1836–1920);163
10.1;Lockyer's Early Life;163
10.2;Early Spectroscopy;165
10.3;The Constitution of the Sun;170
10.4;Solar Prominences : Janssen's and Lockyer's Method of Observing Them;173
10.5;The Sun and the Laboratory;179
10.6;Eclipse Expeditions;182
10.7;Movements in the Sun's Atmosphere;185
10.8;The Dissociation Hypothesis;188
10.9;Coronium and Helium;192
10.10;The South Kensington Observatory;195
10.11;The Meteoritic Hypothesis and Stellar Evolution;196
10.12;Further Interests;206
11;CHAPTER 6. SIDNEY GILCHRIST THOMAS (1850–1885);212
12;CHAPTER 7. VSIR WILLIAM RAMSAY (1852–1916);241
