Thompson, a scientist of distinction who authored this biography of Lord Kelvin. Book excerpt: An important component of a biography of any great scientist is that the biographer also have deep scientific knowledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 622 pages. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Book Synopsis The Life of Lord Kelvin by : Silvanus Phillips Thompsonĭownload or read book The Life of Lord Kelvin written by Silvanus Phillips Thompson and published by American Mathematical Soc. Ives's journey through time is very well handled, at once playful and thoughtful, the sum of these three parts is less than a whole.Ĭopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Ives's grief) is explored in detail only in the concluding section.
The three episodes never cohere, and the driving force behind the plot (St. Blaylock provides plenty of action-perhaps too much-and his characters are, if not realistic, entertaining, but this novel is not among his best work. Ives gives in to his private sorrow, using the machine to travel back in time in an attempt to kill a younger Narbondo and thus save Alice's life. In the second part, an array of colorful, eccentric villains (including a revived Narbondo) compete to use Lord Kelvin's electromagnetic machine in an elaborate (and unlikely) blackmailing plot. Ives turns his grief to determination as he strives to thwart Narbondo's scheme to shift the earth into a collision with a passing comet. Narbondo, ends with the death of his lady love, Alice. Ives despondent after a rainy chase of his nemesis, the evil Dr. The first of the three parts finds amateur scientist Langdon St.
Blaylock ( The Paper Grail ) returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel Homunculus in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure.
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