Author:William Thomson (1824-1907)

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907)

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Works

• "Note on a Passage in Fourier's Heat" - from the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, Volume III, November 1841
• "On the Ultramundane Corpuscles of Le Sage" (From Edinb. Roy. Soc. Proc. Vol. vn. 1872, pp. 577-589 [read Dec. 18, 1871]
• "William Thomson's account of his Christian faith" (from the annual meeting of the Christian Evidence Society) (23 May 1889)
• "On the Possible Density of the Luminiferous Medium, and on the Mechanical Value of a Cubic Mile of Sunlight", Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1854), p.57.

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• “The Available Energy of Nature,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, November 1881
• “The Sun's Heat,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 31, May 1887

Works about Thomson

• “Sketch of Sir William Thomson,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 10, January 1877
• “Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• Kelvin, in Biographies of Scientific Men (1912)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.