Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise

This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.

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