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Cavendish Laboratory : Letter from Maxwell to Tait about his lecture on Thermo-electricity, 10.3.1873

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Tait's Rede Lecture on 'Thermo-electricity' was read on 23 May 1873, and published in Nature, 8 (1873): 86-8, 122-4. The letter is addressed to OT' (P.G.Tait) and signed by dp/dt =JCM = Maxwell. The Greek sentence at the top is a transliteration of 'Thanks for Alice' referring to a book that Tait sent to Maxwell recently, and the one at the bottom says 'The emulation of a good man is always a good thing'. 'Sermons Vol. III' may refer to the works of Jospeh Butler. For more details see: P.M. Harman, 'The scientific letters and papers of James Clerk Maxwell', Vol.II, CUP 1995, p.833. This photograph of the manuscript was probably taken on the occasion of the Maxwell Centenary Celebration in 1931.</p>

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