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Elementary lessons in electricity & magnetism
by Silvanus P Thompson
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151 editions published between 1881 and 1991 in 5 languages and held by 2,772 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Calculus made easy : being a very-simplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the differential calculus and the integral calculus
by Silvanus P Thompson
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202 editions published between 1910 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 2,688 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Updates the classic calculus primer
Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; and, Optics
by Isaac Newton
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24 editions published between 1952 and 2007 in English and held by 2,163 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Optics. By Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light, by Christiaan Huygens
Dynamo-electric machinery: a manual for studens of electrotechnics
by Silvanus P Thompson
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105 editions published between 1883 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 1,002 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Treatise on light, in which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion & in refraction, and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal
by Christiaan Huygens
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26 editions published between 1912 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 581 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Polyphase electric currents and alternate-current motors
by Silvanus P Thompson
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40 editions published between 1895 and 1903 in English and Undetermined and held by 495 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Light visible and invisible a series of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at Christmas, 1896
by Silvanus P Thompson
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26 editions published between 1897 and 1928 in English and held by 491 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs
by Silvanus P Thompson
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22 editions published between 1910 and 2011 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The mathematician and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (1824-1907) was one of Britain's most influential scientists, famous for his work on the first and second laws of thermodynamics and for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature. Silvanus P. Thompson (1851-1916) began this biography with the co-operation of Kelvin in 1906, but the project was interrupted by Kelvin's death the following year. Thompson, himself a respected physics lecturer and scientific writer, decided that a more comprehensive biography would be needed
Michael Faraday; his life and work
by Silvanus P Thompson
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25 editions published between 1898 and 2004 in English and held by 363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On the magnet
by William Gilbert
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11 editions published between 1900 and 1996 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Philipp Reis, inventor of the telephone a biographical sketch, with documentary testimony, translations of the original papers of the inventor and contemporary publications
by Silvanus P Thompson
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14 editions published between 1883 and 1974 in English and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contributions to photographic optics
by O Lummer
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10 editions published between 1900 and 1982 in English and held by 290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Electricity and magnetism
by Amédée Guillemin
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6 editions published in 1891 in English and held by 228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lectures on the electromagnet
by Silvanus P Thompson
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7 editions published between 1891 and 2008 in English and held by 212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The electromagnet, and electromagnetic mechanism
by Silvanus P Thompson
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17 editions published between 1891 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The life of Lord Kelvin
by Silvanus P Thompson
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13 editions published between 1910 and 2005 in English and held by 172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
William Gilbert, and terrestrial magnetism in the time of Queen Elizabeth; a discourse
by Silvanus P Thompson
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8 editions published in 1903 in English and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two tracts on electricity and magnetism
by Robert Boyle
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3 editions published in 1898 in English and held by 158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foncaucourt, soldier, concerning the magnet
by Pierre
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7 editions published in 1902 in English and held by 156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ueber sichtbares und unsichtbares licht Eine reihe von vorlesungen gehalten an der Royal institution von Gross-Britannien
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8 editions published in 1898 in German and held by 153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide more
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Americana Calculus Calculus, Integral Celestial mechanics De magnete (Gilbert, William) Differential calculus Electrical engineering Electrical engineers Electric currents, Alternating Electric currents, Alternating--Polyphase Electric generators Electricity Electric machinery Electric machinery--Polyphase Electric machines Electric motors Electric motors, Alternating current Electromagnetic theory Electromagnetism Electromagnets England England--London Geomagnetism Great Britain Imperial College of Science and Technology Libraries Light Light--Scattering Magnetism Magnets Manuscripts Manuscripts, English Mathematical physics Mathematics Mechanics Optics Photographic optics Physicists Physics Principia (Newton, Isaac) Radiation Radium Reflection (Optics) Refraction Refraction, Double Science Telephone Thompson, Silvanus P.--(Silvanus Phillips), Wave theory of light X-rays
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Phillips Thomson, Silvanus
Thompson, S. P.
Thompson, S. P. 1851-1916
Thompson, Silvanus P.
Thompson, Silvanus P. 1851-1916
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips 1851-
Thompson, Sylvanus P. 1851-1916
Tompson, Sil'vanus.
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