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Lord Kelvin

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British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

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And here a first remark presents itself; Lord Kelvin's result, which I have obtained again by an approximative calculation, agrees sensibly with the evaluations the observers have made with their telescopes; so that we must conclude we are very near to piercing through the milky way. But that enables us to answer another question. There are the stars we see because they shine; but may there not be dark stars…
Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science
States what Lord Kelvin is; names Lord Kelvin twice.
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All physicists are rightly agreed the evidence is overwhelming which shows all sensible matter is composed of molecules in swift motion and exerting enormous mutual attractions, and perhaps repulsions, too. Even Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, who wishes to explode action at a distance and return to the doctrine of a plenum, not only speaks of molecules, but undertakes to assign definite magnitudes to them. The…
Charles S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic
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The scientists of our time do not seem, indeed, to have carried abstraction so far, except perhaps Lord Kelvin. This acute and profound physicist assumed that space is filled with a homogeneous and incompressible fluid in which vortices move, thus producing the properties of matter: these vortices are the constituent elements of…
Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
Names Lord Kelvin.
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