Author:James David Forbes

James David Forbes
(1809–1868)

FRS; Scottish physicist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat, seismology and glaciology; principal of the United College of St. Andrews in 1859

James David Forbes

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  • On the Mathematical Form of the Gothic Pendent (1836)
  • Travels through the Alps (1843)
  • Norway and its Glaciers (1853)
  • Tour of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa (1855)
  • Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers.
  • Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science,’ principally from 1775 to 1850, for the eighth edition of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’


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