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CHAPTER IV 



QUATERNIONS 



Introduction to Hamilton, 119; correspondence with Hamilton, 119-141; differentials, 

 120-124; envelopes, 124; wave-surface, 124-126; early studies in quaternions, 126-128; 

 wave-surface, 129-134; linear vector function, 135-138; electrodynamics, 138; misunder- 

 standings, 139-140; analysis of correspondence, 140-141; letter to Herschel, 141-142; 

 correspondence with Maxwell on Nabla, 143-152; Maxwell's report on Tait's quaternion work, 

 149150; correspondence with Cayley on quaternions and matrices, 152-165; Maxwell's 

 indebtedness to Tait, 166-167; the scientific world's indebtedness to Tait, 167-168; Treatise 

 on Quaternions, 169-170; Maxwell's Tyndallic Ode, 171-173; Maxwell's report of Brit. Assoc. 

 Meeting at Belfast, 174-175. 



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CHAPTER V 



THOMSON AND TAIT 

 "T AND T," OR THOMSON AND TAIT'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 



Tait resolves to write Text-book, 177; joined by Thomson, 177; early draft of contents, 

 178-179; facsimile of Tait's manuscript, 181 ; correspondence with Thomson, 180-184; 

 quaternions excluded, 185; reception of book, 186187; description of scope and contents 

 of "T and T'," 187194; Maxwell's criticisms, 195; German translation, 195-197; early 

 pamphlets, 197200; "Little T and T'," 201-202; Second Edition of Treatise, 202-203; 



Maxwell's review, 203-204. 



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CHAPTER VI 



OTHER BOOKS 



"Tait and Steele," 205-207; Thermodynamics, 208-228; controversy with Tyndall, 209; 

 articles in North British Review, 209-210; estimate of Mayer's work, 211; translates Mohr's 

 paper, 212; Maxwell's account of his "demons," 213-215; letter from Maxwell, 215-216; 

 correspondence with Helmholtz, 216-217; correspondence with Thomson, 218-220; Maxwell 

 reviews Thermodynamics, 220-221; Thomson writes on the Entropy integral, 223-225; charge 

 of Chauvinism, 225-226; Recent Advances, 227-228; Heat, 228; Light, 229; Properties of 

 Matter, 229-230; reviews by Rayleigh and Stewart, 229-230; Dynamics, 230-232; Newton's 

 Laws of Motion, 233-234; correspondence with Cayley on Laws of Motion, 234-236; The 

 Unseen Universe, 236-240; review by Clifford, 240; Paradoxical Philosophy, 241-242; review 

 by Maxwell, 241-242 ; Maxwell's Paradoxical Ode, 242-244 ; Headstone's soliloquy, by Maxwell, 



244-245. 



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