Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait - School of Mathematics ...

CONTENTS ix
CHAPTER VII
ADDRESSES, REVIEWS, AND CORRESPONDENCE
Nebulae and comets, 246-247; addresses to graduates, 247-251; an ideal university,
248; evils of Cram, 249-251; the Rede Lecture, 251-252; lectures to Industrial Classes,
252; lecture on Force, 252-253;
Maxwell's metrical version, 253-255; lecture on Thunder-
storms, 255; Sensation and Science, 256; de Morgan's Budget of Paradoxes, 257-258;
Maxwell's Electricity and Magnetism, 258-260; Maxwell's Matter and Motion, 260-261; life
and work of Maxwell, 261-264; scientific work of Stokes, 264-265;
Stokes' Mathematical and
Physical Papers, 265-266; Stokes' Burnett Lectures, 267-269; Clifford's Dynamic, 270-272;
Clifford's Common Sense of the Exact Sciences, 272-273; Poincare's Thermodynamique, 273-276;
McAulay's Utility of Quaternions, 276-278; Tay Bridge disaster, 278; controversy with
Herbert Spencer, 279-288; Balfour Stewart, 289-291; Robertson Smith, 291-292; Religion
and Science, 293-295.
CHAPTER VHI
POPULAR SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
pp. 246-295
Thunderstorms, 296-320; state of the atmosphere which produces the forms of mirage
observed by Vince and by Scoresby, 321-328; Long Driving, 329-344; J. J. Thomson's
illustration of golf-ball trajectories by streams of electrified particles, 344-345.
Addenda :
J. D. Hamilton Dickson's extension of Tait's thermoelectric theory and diagram,
345-346 ; The Evening Club, 347-349 ; Recent Advances in Physical Science, 349-350.
pp. 296-350
BIBLIOGRAPHY pp. 351-365
INDEX pp. 367-379