John William Strutt, third baron Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., sometime president of the Royal society and chancellor of the University of Cambridge / by his son Robert John Strutt, fourth baron Rayleigh.

  • Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
Date:
1924
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Credit: John William Strutt, third baron Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., sometime president of the Royal society and chancellor of the University of Cambridge / by his son Robert John Strutt, fourth baron Rayleigh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I Ancestry. Parentage. Boyhood . The Strutt Family. Terling. John Strutt. Colonel Strutt. The Peerage. John James Lord Rayleigh. His Marriage. Birth of his Eldest Son, John William. His Sister’s Reminiscences of his Childhood. Early Indication of Scientific Tastes. At Eton. School at Wimbledon; Harrow. Torquay. Mr. H. M. Hyndman’s Reminiscences. Home Pursuits. Photography. CHAPTER II Undergraduate Life at Cambridge . . . . . Trinity College. Mathematics under Dr. Routh. Taste in Books. Coming of Age at Terling. Stokes’ Lectures. Senior Wrangler- ship. CHAPTER III Early Manhood. First Scientific Researches . Trip to Italy. Difficulty in getting Instruction in Experimental Science. Fellowship. Trip to America. Refuses to stand for the University. Charles Darwin. Early Experimenting. Clerk Max¬ well. Researches on Resonance. The Blue Sky. CHAPTER IV Early Married Life ........ Friendship with the Balfours and Cecils. Mr. Gladstone. Marri¬ age to Evelyn Balfour. Rheumatic Fever. Tofts. Egypt and the Nile. Succession to the Peerage. Elected to the Royal Society. Spiritualism. Mrs. Jencken. The Address in the House of Lords. Universities Commission. CHAPTER V In the ’Seventies. The Theory of Sound Beauchamp Tower. Hydraulic Experiments. A. Mallock as Assistant. Depression in Agriculture. Charles Richardson. To Madeira. Life at Terling. Book on the Theory of Sound. Reci¬ procity. Tyndall’s Experiments. Review by Holmholtz. CHAPTER VI Gratings and the Resolving Power of Spectroscopes Diffraction Gratings. Zone Plates. Photographic Copies of Grat¬ ings. Power of the Spectroscope. Vagueness of existing Notions. True Theory and Verification. The Prismatic Spectroscope. • • Vll PAGE 1 25 37 55 71 86
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