Indices of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1821-1971
The Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society were published between 1822 and 1928. Parts appeared at irregular intervals and the volumes contain varying numbers of parts. The Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society first appeared in 1844, and the early volumes, like the Transactions, had varying numbers of parts issued at irregular intervals. From 1928 the Proceedings began to appear at regular quarterly intervals, and from Volume 24 each volume (with the exceptions of Volumes 32 and 39 to 42) has four parts issued in a single year. The dates of issue of the Transactions and of the Proceedings are given in the tables on the following pages. The early volumes of the Proceedings consist, for the most part, of accounts of meetings and brief summaries of papers read to the Society, many of which were afterwards printed in full in the Transactions. In this index the references to the Proceedings are given first with the volume number in Arabic numerals, and the reference to the Transactions follows, with the volume number in Roman numerals. When the Proceedings mentions only the title of a paper, but gives no summary, no entry has been included, unless the paper also appears in the Transactions, when only the Transactions reference is given.
An index to Volumes 1 to 12 of the Transactions was published with Volume 13. The index now published is the first cumulative index of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Its preparation and publication have been made possible by the bequest made to the Society by the late Dr F. W. Aston. The Society is most grateful to all those who have assisted in compiling this index, and in particular to its librarian, Miss J. E. Larter.
Publication of this Index has been made possible by the bequest of the late Dr F. W. Aston, (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945).
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Musical instruments like the clarinet and saxophone do not obviously have anything in common with a bowed violin string. This talk will explore the physics behind how these instruments work, and it will reveal some unexpectedly strong parallels between them. This is all the more surprising because all of them rely on strongly nonlinear phenomena, and nonlinear systems are notoriously tricky: significant commonalities between disparate systems are rare. For all the instruments, computer simulations will be used to give some insight into questions a musician may ask: What variables must a player control, and how? Why are some instruments “easier to play” than others?
In the millennium poll, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was voted the third greatest physicist of all time – behind Newton and Einstein. He is best known for his equations of electromagnetism and thermodynamic relations, but his interests and achievements extended far beyond these fields. His profound insights across many extraordinarily diverse areas have laid the foundations for much of contemporary physical science.
The day will begin with an overview of James Clerk Maxwell’s life and achievements. The talks following will focus on just a few of the fields where he did seminal work, and in which current research is revealing interesting developments.
There will be a small exhibition of artefacts including some of Maxwell’s models from the Cavendish collection. The exhibition catalogue can be found here
James Clerk Maxwell had strong links with the Cambridge Philosophical Society during his time at Cambridge. He studied mathematics as an undergraduate – initially at Peterhouse, but moving to Trinity before the end of his first term. He graduated in 1854, and shortly afterwards presented his first paper On the transformation of surfaces by bending to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. His career took him to Aberdeen, King’s College London and ther family estates at Glenlair before returning to Cambridge in 1871 to become the first Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. He was President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1875-1877. In 1879 he died in Cambridge at the age of 48.
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