Author:Peter Guthrie Tait

Peter Guthrie Tait
(1831–1901)

Peter Guthrie Tait

Works

• Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867) with Lord Kelvin
• The Unseen Universe (1875) with Balfour Stewart (see The Unseen Universe 6th ed. at archive.org)

Contributions to EB9

• "Thermodynamics," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
• "Thunderstorm," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)

Contributions to EB1911

• "Hamilton, Sir William Rowan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Knot," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Maxwell, James Clerk," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Quaternions," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Tait

• "Tait, Peter Guthrie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tait, Peter Guthrie," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• "Peter Guthrie Tait, in Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century (1919), edited by Alexander Macfarlane