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== Cited sources == * {{cite book |ref = Lindley| author=Lindley, D. | title=Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention and Tragedy | year=2004 | publisher=Joseph Henry Press | isbn=978-0-309-09073-5 | url=https://archive.org/details/degreeskelvintal0000lind }} * {{cite book | ref = Sharlin| author=Sharlin, H. I. | title=Lord Kelvin: The Dynamic Victorian | publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press | year=1979 | isbn=978-0-271-00203-3 }} === Kelvin's works === {{refbegin}} * {{cite book | last1=Thomson | first1=W. | last2=Tait |first2=P. G. | title=Treatise on Natural Philosophy | publisher=Oxford | year=1867 }} 2nd edition, 1883. (reissued by [[Cambridge University Press]], 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-108-00537-1}}) ** ''[https://archive.org/details/treatisnatphil01kelvrich Treatise on Natural Philosophy (Part I)]'' ([[Internet Archive]]) ** ''[https://archive.org/details/treatisnatphil02kelvrich Treatise on Natural Philosophy (Part II)]'' ([[Internet Archive]]) * {{cite book | last1=Thomson | first1=W. | author-mask=2 | last2=Tait | first2=P. G | title=Elements of Natural Philosophy | year=1872 | url=https://archive.org/details/elementsnatural00kelvgoog | publisher=At the University press }} (reissued by [[Cambridge University Press]], 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-108-01448-9}}) 2nd edition, 1879. * {{Cite book|title=Elasticity and heat|publisher=Adam & Charles Black|location=Edinburgh|year=1880|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6480219}} * {{cite book | last1=Thomson | first1=W. | title=Shakespeare and Bacon on Vivisection | publisher=Sands & McDougall | year=1881 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KcNAAAAQAAJ&q=Bacon+and+Shakespeare+on+Vivisection&pg=PA5 }} * {{cite book | last1=Thomson | first1=W. | author-mask=2 | last2=Tait | first2=P. G | title=Elements of Natural Philosophy | year=1872 | url=https://archive.org/details/elementsnatural00kelvgoog | publisher=At the University press }} (reissued by [[Cambridge University Press]], 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-108-01448-9}}) 2nd edition, 1879. * {{cite book | last=Thomson | first=W. | author-mask=2 | title=Mathematical and Physical Papers | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=1882β1911 | url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000167345 }} (6 volumes) ** [https://archive.org/details/mathematicaland01kelvgoog Volume I. 1841β1853] ([[Internet Archive]]) ** [https://archive.org/details/mathematicaland02kelvgoog Volume II. 1853β1856] ([[Internet Archive]]) ** [https://archive.org/details/mathematicaland03kelvgoog Volume III. Elasticity, heat, electro-magnetism] ([[Internet Archive]]) ** [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.aat1571.0004.001;view=1up;seq=3 Volume IV. Hydrodynamics and general dynamics] (Hathitrust) ** [https://archive.org/details/mathematicalphys05kelvuoft Volume V. Thermodynamics, cosmical and geological physics, molecular and crystalline theory, electrodynamics] ([[Internet Archive]]) ** [https://archive.org/details/mathematicalphys06kelvuoft Volume VI. Voltaic theory, radioactivity, electrions, navigation and tides, miscellaneous] ([[Internet Archive]]) * {{Cite book | last=Thomson | first=W. | author-mask=2 | title=Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light | year=1904 | url=https://archive.org/details/baltimorelecture00kelviala | bibcode=2010blmd.book.....T | oclc=1041059646 |lccn=04015391 }} (reissued by [[Cambridge University Press]], 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-108-00767-2}}) * {{Cite journal | last=Thomson | first=W. | author-mask=2 | title=Collected Papers in Physics and Engineering | journal=Nature | volume=90 | issue=2256 | pages=563β565 | year=1912 | asin=B0000EFOL8 | bibcode=1913Natur..90..563P | doi=10.1038/090563a0 | s2cid=3957852 }} * {{cite book | editor-last=Wilson | editor-first=D. B. | title=The Correspondence Between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs | publisher=(2 vols), Cambridge University Press | year=1990 | isbn=978-0-521-32831-9 }} * {{cite book | last=HΓΆrz | first=H. | title=Naturphilosophie als Heuristik?: Korrespondenz zwischen Hermann von Helmholtz und Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) | publisher=Basilisken-Presse | year=2000 | isbn=978-3-925347-56-6 }} {{refend}} === Biography, history of ideas and criticism === {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite journal | author=Buchwald, J. Z. | year=1977 | title=William Thomson and the mathematization of Faraday's electrostatics | journal=Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences | volume=8 | pages=101β136 | doi=10.2307/27757369| jstor=27757369 }} * {{cite journal | author=Cardoso Dias, D.M. | year=1996 | title=William Thomson and the Heritage of Caloric | journal=[[Annals of Science]] | volume=53 | pages=511β520 | doi=10.1080/00033799600200361 | issue=5 }} * {{cite journal | author=Gooding, D. | year=1980 | title=Faraday, Thomson, and the concept of the magnetic field | journal=British Journal for the History of Science | volume=13 | pages=91β120 | doi=10.1017/S0007087400017726 | issue=2 | s2cid=145573114 }} * {{cite journal | author=Gossick, B. R. | year=1976 | title=Heaviside and Kelvin: a study in contrasts | journal=Annals of Science | volume=33 | pages=275β287 | doi = 10.1080/00033797600200561 | issue=3}} * {{cite book | author=Gray, A. | title=Lord Kelvin: An Account of His Scientific Life and Work | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53570 | year=1908 | location=London | publisher=J. M. Dent & Co }} * {{Cite journal |author1=Green, G. |author2=Lloyd, J. T. |name-list-style=amp | title=Kelvin's instruments and the Kelvin Museum |journal=American Journal of Physics |volume=40 |issue=3 |page=496 | year=1970 | isbn=978-0-85261-016-9 |bibcode=1972AmJPh..40..496G |doi=10.1119/1.1986598 }} * {{cite book | author=Hearn, Chester G. | title=Circuits in the Sea: the men, the ships, and the Atlantic cable | year=2004 | location=Westport, Connecticut | publisher=Praeger }} * {{Cite journal | editor1=Kargon, R. H. |editor2= Achinstein, P.| year=1987 | title=Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics; Historical and Philosophical Perspectives | journal=Physics Today | volume=42 | issue=1 | pages=82β84 | isbn=978-0-262-11117-1 | bibcode=1989PhT....42a..82K | doi=10.1063/1.2810888 | url=https://archive.org/details/kelvinsbaltimore00lord/page/82 |last1= Kargon|first1= Robert|last2= Achinstein|first2= Peter|last3= Brown|first3= Laurie M.}} * {{Cite journal | author=King, A. G. | year=1925 | title=Kelvin the Man | journal=Nature | volume=117 | issue=2933 | page=79 | bibcode=1926Natur.117R..79. | doi=10.1038/117079b0 | s2cid=4094894 }} * {{Cite journal | author=King, E. T. | year=1909 | title=Lord Kelvin's Early Home | journal=Nature | volume=82 | issue=2099 | pages=331β333 | bibcode=1910Natur..82..331J | doi=10.1038/082331a0 | s2cid=3974629 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/2442316 }} * {{cite journal | author=Knudsen, O. | year=1972 | title=From Lord Kelvin's notebook: aether speculations | journal=Centaurus | volume=16 | issue=1 | pages=41β53 | doi = 10.1111/j.1600-0498.1972.tb00164.x|bibcode = 1972Cent...16...41K }} * {{cite book | editor1=McCartney, M. |editor2= Whitaker, A. | title=Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision | year=2002 | publisher=Institute of Physics Publishing | isbn=978-0-7503-0866-3 }} * {{cite journal | year=1979 | author=May, W. E. | title=Lord Kelvin and his compass | journal=Journal of Navigation | volume=32 | issue=1 | pages=122β134 | doi=10.1017/S037346330003318X | bibcode=1979JNav...32..122M | s2cid=122538244 }} * {{cite book | author=Munro, J. | year=1891 | title=Heroes of the Telegraph | url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924031222494 | publisher=London: Religious Tract Society }} * {{cite book | author=Murray, D. | year=1924 | title=Lord Kelvin as Professor in the Old College of Glasgow | publisher=Glasgow: Maclehose & Jackson }} * {{cite book | author=Russell, A. | year=1912 | title=Lord Kelvin: His Life and Work | publisher=London: T. C. & E. C.Jack| url=https://archive.org/stream/lordkelvinhislif00russ#page/n5/mode/2up |access-date=25 March 2014 }} * {{cite book |author1=Smith, C. |author2=Wise, M. N. |name-list-style=amp | title=Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=1989 | isbn=978-0-521-26173-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2JYWeyAXpHUC&pg=PR7 |access-date=25 March 2014 }} * {{cite book | author=Thompson, S. P. | title=Life of William Thomson: Baron Kelvin of Largs | url=https://archive.org/details/b31360403_0001 | publisher=Macmillan | location=London | year=1910 }} In two volumes [https://archive.org/stream/lifeofwilliamtho01thomuoft#page/n9/mode/2up Volume 1] [https://archive.org/stream/lifeofwillthom02thomrich#page/n7/mode/2up Volume 2] * {{cite book | author=Tunbridge, P. | title=Lord Kelvin: His Influence on Electrical Measurements and Units | location=Peter Peregrinus | publisher=London | year=1992 | isbn=978-0-86341-237-0}} * {{cite book | author=Wilson, D. | year=1910 | title=William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: His Way of Teaching | publisher=Glasgow: John Smith & Son }} * {{cite book | author=Wilson, D. B. | title=Kelvin and Stokes: A Comparative Study in Victorian Physics | year=1987 | location=Bristol | publisher=Hilger | isbn=978-0-85274-526-7 }} {{refend}}
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