Electricity and matter

Thomson J. J. (Joseph John) Sir 1856-1940

Sujets

• Radio-Activity (album)
• Electricity
• Matter

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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SciencesPhysical Library
of CaliforniaUniversity
Riverside
IYALE UNIVERSITY
HEPSA ELY SILLIMANMEMORIAL LECTURESMRS.
AND MATTERELECTRICITYELECTRICITY AND
MATTER
J. J. F.R.S.THOMSON, D.Sc., LL.D., PH.D.,
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; CAVENDISH
PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL CAMBRIDGEPHYSICS,
WITH DIAGRAMS
WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & LTD.CO.,
1904for1904, by Charles Scribner's Sons, Great Britain and theCopyright,
United Slates ofAmerica
andPrinted by the Trow Directory, Printing Bookbinding Company
New U. S. A.York.THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION.
a of thousandIn the 1883 dollarslegacy eightyyear
to the President and Fellows of Yalewas left College
New to be held in as ain the of Haven, trust,city
her in of their beloved andfrom children,gift memory
honored mother Mrs. Silliman.Hepsa Ely
On this foundation Yale was andCollege requested
directed to establish an annual course of lectures de-
to illustrate the and thesigned presence providence,
wisdom and of as manifested in theGod,goodness
natural and moral world. These were to be designated
as the Mrs. Silliman Memorial Lectures. ItHepsa Ely
was the belief of the testator that any orderly presenta-
tion of the facts of nature or contributed tohistory
the end of this foundation more thaneffectively any
to the elements of doctrine or ofattempt emphasize
and he therefore that lectures oncreed; provided dog-
matic or should be excluded frompolemical theology
the of this and that the shouldfoundation,scope subjects
be selected rather from the domains of natural science
and tohistory, giving special prominence astronomy,
andchemistry, geology, anatomy.
It was further directed that each annual course should
be made the basis of a volume to form of a seriespart
a memorial to Mrs. Silliman. The memo-constituting
rial fund came into the of thepossession Corporation
of Yale in the and the1902;University year present
volume constitutes the first of the series of memorial
lectures.