Knott, Cargill Gilston.
Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait Supplementing the two Volumes of Scientific Papers published in 1898 and 1900.
Cambridge: at the University Press 1911.
4to. pp. [x], 379; port. frontis., 4 other ports.; some pen or pencil annotations, occasional browning or soiling, good and uncut in the original cloth, gilt, neatly restored to extrems.
Joint author with Lord Kelvin of the Treatise on Natural Philosophy, and contributor to many areas in physics, Tait was a prestigious figure of the late 19th century flowering of science in Scotland and Britain. His mathematical prowess brought him recognition from not only Kelvin but also James Clerk Maxwell and others of the day.
£50
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