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Klappentext Energy and Empire is a definitive biographical study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of nineteenth-century Britain. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The making of the natural philosopher: 1. From the ashes of revolution; 2. Clydeside; 3. A Cambridge undergraduate; 4. The changing tradition of natural philosophy; 5. Professor William Thomson; Part II. The transformation of classical physics: 6. The language of mathematical physics; 7. The kinematics of field theory and the nature of electricity; 8. The dynamics of field theory; 9. Thermodynamics: the years of uncertainty; 10. Thermodynamics: the years of resolution; 11. T & T or Treatise on natural philosophy; 12. The hydrodynamics of matter; 13. Telegraph signals and light waves: Thomson versus Maxwell; Part III. The economy of nature: the great storehouse of creation: 14. The irreversible cosmos; 15. The age of the sun controversies; 16. The secular cooling of the earth; 17. The age of the earth controversies; 18. The habitation of earth; Part IV. Energy! economy and Empire: the relief of Man's estate: 19. The telegraphic art; 20. Measurement and marketing: the economics of electricity; 21. Rule Britannia: the art of navigation; 22. The magnetic compass; 23. Baron Kelvin of Largs; Bibliography; Index.
