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&quot; Such editions as that of which Prof. Mayor way admirably suited to meet the needs of the 



has given us the first instalment will doubtless student . . . The notes of the editor are all that 



do much to remedy this undeserved neglect. It could be expected from his well-known learn- 



is one on which great pains and much learning ing and scholarship. &quot; Academy. 

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&quot;Wherever exact science has found a fol- borne rich and abundant fruit. Twenty years 



lower Sir William Thomson s name is known as after its date the International Conference of 



a leader and a master. For a space of 40 years Electricians at Paris, assisted by the author 



each of his successive contributions to know- himself, elaborated and promulgated a series of 



ledge in the domain of experimental and mathe- rules and units which are but the detailed out- 



matical physics has been recognized as marking come of the principles laid down in these 



a stage in the progress of the subject. But, un- papers.&quot; The Tunes. 



happily for the mere learner, he is no writer of &quot;We are convinced that nothing has had a 



text-books. His eager fertility overflows into greater effect on the progress of the theories of 



the nearest available journal . . . The papers in electricity and magnetism during the last ten 



this volume deal largely with the subject of the years than the publication of Sir W. Thomson s 



dynamics of heat. They begin with two or reprint of papers on electrostatics and magnet- 



three articles which were in part written at the ism, and we believe that the present volume is 



age of 17, before the author had commenced destined in no less degree to further the ad- 



residence as an undergraduate in Cambridge vancement of physical science. We owe the 



. . . No student of mechanical engineering, modern dynamical theory of heat almost wholly 



who aims at the higher levels of his profession, to Joule and Thomson, and Clausius and Ran- 



can afford to be ignorant of the principles and kine, and we have here collected together the 



methods set forth in these great memoirs . . . whole of Thomson s investigations on this sub- 



The article on the absolute measurement of ject, together with the papers published jointly 



electric and galvanic quantities (1851) has by himself and Joule.&quot;- Glasgow Herald. 



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contains mucli more than his hydrodynamical slurred over, nothing extenuated. We learn 



papers. The undulatory theory of light is exactly the weaknesses of the theory, and 



treated, and the difficulties connected with its the direction in which the completer theory of 



application to certain phenomena, such as aber- the future must be sought for. The same spirit 



ration, are carefully examined and resolved. pervades the papers on pure mathematics which 



Such difficulties are commonly passed over with are included in the volume. They have a severe 



stant notice in the text-books . . . Those to accuracy of style which well befits the subtle 



whom difficulties like these are real stumbling- nature of the subjects, and inspires the corn- 



blocks will still turn for enlightenment to Pro- pletest confidence in theirauthor.&quot; Tlie Times. 

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