Original edition: London, Macmillan and Co., 1882. — 700 p.
Digital edition (“
digital preservation”) of the 1882-edition by James C. Rautio, Sonnet Software, Inc., 1999, — 354 p.
Biographical OutlineBirth And Parentage
Glenlair — Childhood — 1831-1841
Boyhood — 1841-1844
Adolescence — 1844-1847
Opening Manhood — 1847-1850
Undergraduate Life At Cambridge — 1850-1854
Bachelor-Scholar And Fellow Of Trinity — 1854-1856
Essays At Cambridge — 1853-1856
Death Of His Father — Professorship At Aberdeen — 1856-1857
Aberdeen — Marriage — 1857-1860
King’s College, London — Glenlair — 1860-1870
Cambridge — 1871-1879
Illness And Death — 1879
Last Essays At Cambridge
Contributions To ScienceExperiments On Colour Vision, And Other Contributions To Optics
Investigations Respecting Elastic Solids
Pure Geometry
Mechanics
Saturn’s Rings
Faraday’s Lines Of Force, And Maxwell’S Theory Of The Electromagnetic Field, Including The Electromagnetic Theory Of Light, And Other Investigations In Electricity
Molecular Physics
PoemsJuvenile Verses And Translations
Occasional Pieces
Serio-Comic Verse
Additional Material From The Second Edition