Treatise on Natural Philosophy

Treatise on Natural Philosophy

"Treatise on Natural Philosophy" was an 1867 text book by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Peter Guthrie Tait, published by Oxford University Press, that did much to define the modern discipline of physics.


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