Treatise on Natural Philosophy was an 1867 text book by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Peter Guthrie Tait, published by Oxford University Press.
Author | William Thomson and Peter Tait |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Physics |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Published | 1867 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
The Treatise was often referred to as and , as explained by Alexander Macfarlane:[1]: 43
The first volume was received by an enthusiastic review in Saturday Review:
The Treatise was also reviewed as Elements of Natural Philosophy (1873).[3]
Thomson & Tait's Treatise on Natural Philosophy was reviewed by J. C. Maxwell in Nature of 3 July 1879 indicating the importance given to kinematics: "The guiding idea … is that geometry itself is part of the science of motion."[4]
In 1892 Karl Pearson noted that and perpetuated a "subjectivity of force" that originated with Newton.[5]
In 1902 Alexander Macfarlane ascribed much of the inspiration of the book to William Rankine's 1865 paper "Outlines of the Science of Energetics":