Table of Contents: “…--v. 2. pts. 1-2. Saint-Venant to Lord Kelvin.…”

Table of Contents: “…13. Age of the Earth: Lord Kelvin's Model --…”
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Table of Contents: “…`You and I are just about fit to mend his pens': William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, scientific genius --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Urban VIII versus Galileo: an unequal contest -- Wallis versus Hobbes: squaring the circle -- Newton versus Leibniz: a clash of titans -- Voltaire versus Needham: the generation controversy -- Darwin's bulldog versus Soapy Sam: evolution wars -- Lord Kelvin versus geologists and biologists: the age of the Earth -- Cope versus Marsh: the fossil feud -- Wegener versus everybody: continental drift -- Johanson versus the Leakeys: the missing link -- Derek Freeman versus Margaret Mead: nature versus nurture.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Edwin Ray Lankester / From Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880) -- Thomas Henry Huxley / From The Struggle for Existence: A Programme (1888) -- Benjamin Kidd / From Social Evolution (1894) -- William Thomson [Lord Kelvin] / From On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) -- Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait / From The Unseen Universe (1885) -- Criticism. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Mill's epiphany ; Darwin's ape ; Saxe's puzzling elephant ; Herbert Spencer's impatience ; Lord Kelvin's sun ; The lady or the tiger ; William James's freedom ; William James's squirrel ; Kropotkin's cooperators ; Nietzsche's revaluation ; Nietzsche's long run ; Lasswitz's library ; Frege's morning star ; Durkheim's suicides ; The monkey's paw ; Wells's neomen ; Borel's monkeys ; Russell's king of France ; Russell's chicken ; Angell's illusion ; Richardson's coastline ; Duchamp's urinal ; Wittgenstein's poker ; Collingwood's presuppositions ; Collingwood's history trap ; Teilhard's omega -- The current era, 1900 to the present. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Aerobic cellular respiration -- Air conditioning -- Alternative energy -- Ampère, André-Marie -- Animal power -- Atomic Energy Commission -- Batteries -- Biodiesel -- Biomass energy -- Boilers -- Breeder reactors -- Building envelope -- Capacity (Electricity) -- Cellulosic ethanol -- Chernobyl -- China syndrome (nuclear meltdown) -- Clausius, Rudolf -- Climate and weather -- Climate neutrality -- Coal and energy production -- Cogeneration and electricity generation -- Cold fusion -- Communication to garner support for energy development -- Computers and energy use -- Corn ethanol -- Dams -- Daylighting -- Demand-side management (DSM) -- Diesel, Rudolf -- Einstein, Albert -- Electric grids -- Electric potential -- Electricity energy transmission, Secondary -- Embodied energy -- Energy and power -- Energy conservation -- Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 -- Energy intensity -- Energy payback -- Energy policy -- Energy poverty -- Energy storage techniques -- Enthalpy -- Entropy -- Exergy -- External combustion engine -- Faraday, Michael -- Flex-fuel vehicles (FFV) -- Flywheels -- Fossil fuels -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frequency -- Fuel cells and energy efficiency -- Fundamentals of energy -- Gas energy transmission -- Gasoline and other petroleum fuels -- Geothermal and hydrothermal energy -- Geothermal energy -- Gibbs, Josiah Willard -- Green buildings -- Green energy certification -- Greenhouse gases and human industry -- Heat transfer -- Helmholtz, Hermann von -- Hertz, Heinrich -- High-intensity light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and energy conservation -- Hybrid vehicles and energy security -- Industrial revolution and machine power -- Internal combustion engine -- Isotopes, Radioactive -- Isotopes, Stable -- Joule, James -- Kinetic energy -- Liquid fluid energy transmission -- Mechanical energy transmission -- Natural energy flows -- Natural gas -- Nuclear power plants -- Ocean current energy -- Ocean thermal energy conversion -- Ocean wave energy -- Oil and petroleum -- Oil shale and tar sands -- Otto, Nikolaus -- Photovoltaics (PVs) -- Potential energy -- Propane -- Rankine, William -- Renewable energy -- Renewable energy resources -- Rotational power -- Sadi Carnot -- Solar concentrator -- Solar energy -- Solar thermal systems -- Steam and steam turbines -- Steam engines -- Stirling, Robert -- Sugar beet ethanol -- Sugarcane ethanol -- Sun day -- Tesla, Nikola -- Thermochemistry -- Thermodynamics and energy -- Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford) -- Thomson, Joseph John -- Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin) -- Tidal power generation -- Units of measurement -- U.S. …”
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Table of Contents: “…8.1 From the Ancient Greeks8.2 More Ingenious Devices; 8.3 Deeper Questions; 8.4 Computing with Soap Films; 8.5 Local and Global; 8.6 Differential Equations; 8.7 Integration; 8.8 Lord Kelvin's Research Program; 8.9 The Electronic Analog Computer; 9 Turing's Machine; 9.1 The Ingredients of a Turing Machine; 9.2 The All-Analog Machine; 9.3 The Partly Digital Computer; 9.4 A Reminiscence: The Stored-Program Loom in New Jersey; 9.5 Monsieur Jacquard's Loom; 9.6 Charles Babbage; 9.7 Babbage's Analytical Engine; 9.8 Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace; 9.9 Turing's Abstraction…”
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Table of Contents: “…8.1 From the Ancient Greeks8.2 More Ingenious Devices; 8.3 Deeper Questions; 8.4 Computing with Soap Films; 8.5 Local and Global; 8.6 Differential Equations; 8.7 Integration; 8.8 Lord Kelvin's Research Program; 8.9 The Electronic Analog Computer; 9 Turing's Machine; 9.1 The Ingredients of a Turing Machine; 9.2 The All-Analog Machine; 9.3 The Partly Digital Computer; 9.4 A Reminiscence: The Stored-Program Loom in New Jersey; 9.5 Monsieur Jacquard's Loom; 9.6 Charles Babbage; 9.7 Babbage's Analytical Engine; 9.8 Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace; 9.9 Turing's Abstraction…”
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Table of Contents: “…Thompson -- William (Lord Kelvin) Thompson -- Friedrich Tiedemann -- Torcaso v. …”