Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

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MIT Press (MA) (1987)
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In 1884 Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) delivered a significant series of lectures on physics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This book presents the twenty lectures in their original form for the first time.

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