[388] Joule and Thomson, Philosophical Transactions, 1854, vol. cxliv. p. 337.
[389] The properties of a perfect gas have been described by Rankine, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xxv. p. 561.
[390] Thomson and Tait’s Natural Philosophy, vol. i. p. 60.
[391] Challis, Notes on the Principles of Pure and Applied Calculation, 1869, p. 83.
[392] An Introduction to Physical Measurements, translated by Waller and Procter, 1873, p. 10.
[393] Cambridge Philosophical Transactions (1865), vol. xi. Part I.
[394] Sandeman, Pelicotetics, p. 214.
[395] The Science and Art of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools. (Whitaker and Co.)
[396] Principles of Approximate Calculations, by J. J. Skinner, C.E. (New York, Henry Holt), 1876.
[397] Leslie, Inquiry into the Nature of Heat, p. 505.