Chapter 5 Kelvin, Maxwell, Clausius and Tait: the correspondence of James Clerk Maxwell

The correspondence between Maxwell and Kelvin on many topics of mutual interest during the second half of the nineteenth century was terminated by Maxwell’s untimely death in 1879. Much of what little there was on thermodynamics is no longer extant. Peter Guthrie Tait, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University from 1860 to 1901, provided the important lin