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Book by William Thomson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Treatise on Natural Philosophy was an 1867 text book by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Peter Guthrie Tait, published by Oxford University Press.
Author | William Thomson and Peter Tait |
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Language | English |
Subject | Physics |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Published | 1867 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
The Treatise was often referred to as and , as explained by Alexander Macfarlane:[1]: 43
The first volume was received by an enthusiastic review in Saturday Review:
The Treatise was also reviewed as Elements of Natural Philosophy (1873).[3]
Thomson & Tait's Treatise on Natural Philosophy was reviewed by J. C. Maxwell in Nature of 3 July 1879 indicating the importance given to kinematics: "The guiding idea … is that geometry itself is part of the science of motion."[4]
In 1892 Karl Pearson noted that and perpetuated a "subjectivity of force" that originated with Newton.[5]
In 1902 Alexander Macfarlane ascribed much of the inspiration of the book to William Rankine's 1865 paper "Outlines of the Science of Energetics":
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