Stewart, Balfour

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Balfour Stewart

(English: Balfour Stewart)

(3 November 1828 − 3 November 1887)

Scottish physicist. Zirkoff's bibliography cites his lecture "The Sun and the Earth," delivered as part of a popular science lecture series in Manchester in the early 1870s. (BCW 1:528).

De Zirkoff cites “The Sun and the Earth” in the fourth series of Manchester's Science Lectures for the People (1872-1873), and the fourth edition of The Unseen Universe (London, 1876), written in collaboration with Tait. (BCW 3:531).

The bibliography cites The Conservation of Energy (1874). (BCW 4:666).

Co-author with Peter Guthrie Tait of The Unseen Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State. Its first edition appeared anonymously in London in 1875. (BCW 5:382).

Co-author with Peter Guthrie Tait of The Unseen Universe, or Physical Speculations on a Future State, first published anonymously in London in 1875. (BCW 6:446).

Some links:

• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Стюарт, Бальфур
• Wikipedia: Balfour Stewart

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