BIBLIOGRAPHY 365 



LIST OF BOOKS WHOLLY OR PARTLY WRITTEN BY P. G. TAIT. 



1. A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle. By P. G. Tail and W. J. Steele. Macmillan and 

 Co., London. 1856, 1865, 1871, 1878, 1882, 1889, 1900. 



2. Sketch of Elementary Dynamics. By W. Thomson and P. G. Tail. Maclachlan and 

 Stewart, Edinburgh. 1863. A pamphlet of 44 pages, afterwards incorporated in the 

 large type part of the Treatise, No. 3 in this list, and also in Nos. 5 and 7. 



3. A Treatise on Natural Philosophy. Vol. I. By Sir W. Thomson and P. G. Tail. The 

 Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1867. Second Edition in Two Parts, The University Press, 

 Cambridge. 1878, 1883. 



4. An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions. By P. G. Tait. The Clarendon Press, Oxford. 

 1867. Later and enlarged editions, The University Press, Cambridge. 1873, 1890. 



5. Elementary Dynamics. By Sir W. Thomson and P. G. Tait. The Clarendon Press, 

 Oxford. 1867. Second issue [not published], 1868. Afterwards enlarged to Elements 

 of Natural Philosophy. 



6. Historical Sketch of the Dynamical Theory of Heat. [Not published.] Thomas Constable, 

 Edinburgh. 1867. The first and second chapters of the Sketch of Thermodynamics (1868). 



7. Elements of Natural Philosophy. By Sir W. Thomson and P. G. Tait. The Clarendon 

 Press. 1873. Second Edition, Cambridge. 1879. 



8. Sketch of Thermodynamics. By P. G. Tait. Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh. 1868. 

 Second Edition, David Douglas, Edinburgh. 1877. 



g. Life and Letters of J. D. Forbes. By J. C. Shairp, P. G. Tait and A. Adams-Reilly. 

 Macmillan and Co., London. 1873. 



10. Introduction to Quaternions. By Philip Kelland and P. G. Tait. Macmillan and Co., 

 London. 1873, 1881, 1904 (the last edited by C. G. Knott). 



11. The Unseen Universe. By B. Stewart and P. G. Tait. Macmillan and Co., London. 

 1875, 1875, 1875, 1876, 1876, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1882, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1890. 



12. Recent Advances in Physical Science. By P. G. Tait. Macmillan and Co., London. 1876, 

 1876. 



13. Paradoxical Philosophy. By B. Stewart and P. G. Tait. Macmillan and Co., London. 1878. 



14. Miscellaneous Scientific Papers by W. J. Macquorn Rankine, with a memoir of the Author 

 by P. G. Tait. Edited by W. J. Millar. Charles Griffin and Co., London. 1881. 



15. Heat. By P. G. Tait. Macmillan and Co., London. 1884. 



1 6. Light. By P. G. Tait. Adam and Charles Black, London. 1884, 1889, 1900. 



17. Properties of Matter. By P. G. Tait. Adam and Charles Black, London. 1885, 1890, 

 1894, 1899, 1907 (the last edited by W. Peddie). 



18. The Scientific Papers of the late Thomas Andrews, with a Memoir by P. G. Tait and 

 A. Crum Brown. Macmillan and Co., London. 1889. 



19. Dynamics. By P. G. Tait. Adam and Charles Black, London. 1895. 



20. Newton's Laws of Motion. By P. G. Tait. Adam and Charles Black, London. 1899. 



21. Scientific Papers. By P. G. Tait. Vol. I. The Cambridge University Press. 1898. 



22. Scientific Papers. By P. G. Tait. Vol. II. The Cambridge University Press. 1900. 



Of these books, Nos. 4, 8, n, and 12 were translated into French; Nos. 3, 4, 12, 15, 

 and 1 7 into German ; and No. 1 2 into Italian. 



