Memoir of James Prescott Joule(Reprint) (Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences) by OsborneReynolds Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2011 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-02880-6, ISBN: 1-108-02880-2
"In this first biography of the physicist Sir James Prescott Joule (1818-1889), his friend and collaborator Osborne Reynolds (1842-1912), Professor of Engineering at Owens College, Manchester, is keen to show how Joule, the son of a prosperous Salford brewer, was an 'ordinary' boy, enjoying regular walking trips to Snowdon, the Peaks and the Lakes; at the same time, he was greatly influenced by two years of tuition by John Dalton. His la ..."
"Excerpt from Memoir of James Prescott JouleJoule each of them, made discoveries which alone rendered generalization possible. And this was more particularly the case with Joule's discovery of the law of conservation of energy. This law, too, by completing the foundation of physical science rendered possible the grand generalization by which all branches of science are united in mechanical philosophy; so that it is to the memory of Joule ..."
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