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THESE notices of the life and work of Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, are all true, and they are all quite different from one another. Prof. Larmor dwells upon the important mathematical theorems with which Lord Kelvin enriched natural philosophy, and he is almost indignant that mere inventions for the service of man should have occupied the best time in the life of the greatest of naturalists. It is a masterly essay, and will be of the greatest value to some future biographer or historian of science. As Stokes and Fitzgerald are dead, there is nobody now living who could have done the work so well as Larmor. Nobody ever could have done it better.
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Lord Kelvin 1 . Nature 78, 323–324 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078323a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/078323a0