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  3. Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart.
    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2010
    24 June 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511707124
    9781108008921
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511707124
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.65kg, 520 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
    Subjects:
    Physics and Astronomy, History, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics, Engineering: General Interest, History of Science: General Interest
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
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    Physics and Astronomy, History, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics, Engineering: General Interest, History of Science: General Interest
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    Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and President of the Royal Society, Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1904) made substantial contributions to the fields of fluid dynamics, optics, physics, and geodesy, in which numerous discoveries still bear his name. The Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., edited by Joseph Larmor, offers rare insight into this capacious scientific mind, with letters attesting to the careful, engaged experimentation that earned him international acclaim. Volume 2 (1907) includes important professional correspondence with James Clerk Maxwell, James Prescott Joule, and many others, with particular attention given to Stokes' activities with the British Meteorological Society. Many of his foundational innovations in optics are also explicated in these letters, serving in place of the authoritative volume he unfortunately never had the opportunity to complete.

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