Author:Peter Guthrie Tait

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Peter Guthrie Tait
(1831–1901)

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Physicist

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "P. G. T."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "P. G. T."

Works

Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867) with Lord Kelvin
The Unseen Universe (1875) with Balfour Stewart (see The Unseen Universe 6th ed. at archive.org)

Contributions to EB9

“Thermodynamics” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
“Thunderstorm” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to EB1911

"Hamilton, Sir William Rowan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Knot," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Maxwell, James Clerk," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Quaternions," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Tait

"Tait, Peter Guthrie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Tait, Peter Guthrie," in Dictionary of National Biography Second Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1912) in 3 vols.

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