Author:Peter Guthrie Tait

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Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901)

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Physicist

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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."

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

Peter Guthrie Tait

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, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.