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	JAMES DAVID FORBES - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES DAVID FORBES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(1809-1868), Scottish physicist, was the fourth son of Sir William Forbes, 7th baronet of Pitsligo, and was born at Edinburgh on.
		His observations led him to the view that a glacier is an imperfect fluid or a viscous body which is urged down slopes of a certain inclination by the mutual pressure of its parts, and involved him in some controversy with Tyndali and others both as to priority and to scientific principle.
		Forbes was also interested in geology, and published memoirs on the thermal springs of the Pyrenees, on the extinct volcanoes of the Vivarais (Ardche), on the geology of the Cuchullin and Eildon hills, andc.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FORBES_JAMES_DAVID.htm (573 words)

	James Clerk Maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		James Clerk Maxwell was born on 13 July 1831 in Edinburgh and died in Cambridge on 5 November 1879.
		At fourteen Maxwell wrote a geometrical paper which his father showed to James David Forbes, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, who arranged for its publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
		Forbes combined Scotland’s traditional, broad treatment of subjects within natural philosophy with an emphasis on higher mathematics and methodological considerations.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/maxwell.htm (3990 words)

	GEORGE FORBES
		Forbes is a gentleman in mind and manners with abundant energy and l a decided love for his favorite studies” [4].
		Forbes liked to call his house “The Shed,” a large wooden structure which had an observatory on the upper story overlooking Loch Faskally and the hydro-electric scheme which he had first proposed in the early 1900’s.
		Forbes that his highness the Grand Duke, General-in-Chief of the army of the Caucasus, has been pleased to grant him permission to the camp of the Russian troops, either before Kars or in the Kobaulete.
	www.timdawsn.demon.co.uk /duthie_article.htm (4870 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mary Forbes, by her first husband, John Forbes, younger of Monymusk, was the mother of Sir William Forbes, baronet, father of the eminent banker of that name.
		The title is claimed by Sir John Forbes of Pitsligo and Fettercairn, baronet; by Sir charles Forbes of Newe and Edinglassi, baronet; and by John Alexander Forbes, Esq., formerly lieutenant-colonel of the 92d Highlanders.
		Mary Forbes of Pitsligo, daughter of Alexander thrid Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, and on the death of John, master of Pitsligo, in 1781, her descendants became nearest heirs and representatives of that noble family.
	people.arsc.edu /~lforbes/Pitsligo.txt (967 words)

	More of the Forbes Clan from Aberdeen-shire in Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Forbes Tea and Coffee Co. in St. Louis, MO. He was born in Alton, IL and commuted to St. Louis daily until his marriage to Muriel Morgan of St. Louis in 1938.
		Bishop Patrick Forbes (1564-1635) was by birth the laird of Corse and O'Neil, Aberdeenshire.
		At one time, it was a Forbes domain, but not until one of the previous owners of the Urrie or Hurry family (including General Hurry of the UK Civil War) was outlawed for raiding the homes of the tenants of the Forbes of Forneidlie and stole their cattle.
	www.treasuresofbritain.org /ForbesClan2.htm (4902 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		It was Forbes' staunch support of the Hanoverian monarch George II that had contributed greatly to the defeat of the Jacobites.
		Another illustrious name from the city of Edinburgh is that of James David Forbes, whose research on heat conduction and glaciers brought him the coveted Gold Medal from the Royal Society in 1843.
		Its author was James Frazer, anthropologist, folklorist and classicist, born in Glasgow, educated at that proud city's university and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/f1.html (1959 words)

	George Forbes
		Forbes led the British party to observe the Transit of Venus from Hawaii in 1874 and wrote and lectured widely about astronomy for professional and popular audiences.
		Born in Edinburgh in 1849, Forbes was the second son of James David Forbes and Alicia Wauchope.
		Forbes was elected a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and received an honourary LLD from St Andrews.
	www.observatorypitlochry.com /george_forbes.htm (1039 words)

	Search Results for Maxwell
		James Clerk Maxwell was born at 14 India Street in Edinburgh, a house built by his parents in the 1820s, but shortly afterwards his family moved to their home at Glenlair in Kirkcudbrightshire about 20 km from Dumfries.
		James Clerk Maxwell was born on 13th June 1831 in Edinburgh at 14 India Street, a house built for his father in that part of Edinburgh's elegant Georgian New Town which was built after the Napoleonic Wars.
		Their son James Clerk Maxwell was born in the house at 14 India Street and he would eventually inherit the house on the death of his father, retaining the house throughout his life.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Maxwell&CONTEXT=1 (10272 words)

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		James was born 9-29-1764 in Salem New Hampshire.
		James was the first or second son of John Beaty SR and Margaret Montgo ery, born in Chester County, PA in 1752 or 1753.
		James eventually migrate to Cumberland County, KY and then to Rutherford County, TN, where he died and is buried.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/7977/geobook.html (8651 words)

	"Lifeless Seed of Life"
		In 1843 James David Forbes published the theory on which Ruskin's poetic description of glaciers is based -- the theory that ice, although apparently brittle, behaves as a viscous substance when subjected to steady pressure.
		Stung perhaps by unconscious rivalry, Ruskin chose to make Tyndall the focus of attack by entering the defense of Forbes, exactly as he had entered the defense of Turner thirty years before, picturing Tyndall as an arrogant johnny-come-lately and Forbes as the traduced representative of the "old ways," of a science modest, accurate, and loving.
		The defense of Forbes is a reassertion of what we might call a moral empiric: the belief that scientific truth, like great art, can be the product only of direct and sensuous apprehension and an expression of the perceiver's moral state.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/ruskin/sawyer/11.2.html (3289 words)

	Forbes House had deep roots
		Sallie Forbes was in residence in the 1930s when she was interviewed for the Works Progress Administration by N.M. Deaderick on March 11, 1937.
		William Owens of Savannah, Ga. Sallie and her sister were the daughters of Frank Thornton Forbes and Anne Mercer Chew and were the great-granddaughters of Francis Thornton, Gen. Hugh Mercer and Dr. David Forbes.
		The Forbes House is thought to have been used as a hospital during the War Between the States, and as a result the floors are said to have been stained with blood in many places in many rooms.
	www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2004/042004/04102004/1324102/printer_friendly (1301 words)

	Glacial theory history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Agassiz undertook detailed studies of glacier movement in Switzerland in the 1840s, and he influenced James D. Forbes, a Scotch physicist, to begin similar glaciological research in the French Alps.
		Forbes established that glaciers move in part by internal "viscous" (plastic) deformation, in contrast to the more popular dilatation or regelation theories of the day (Cunningham 1990).
		Agassiz and Forbes were initially close friends, but they became bitter enemies over questions of priority and integrity in their glaciological discoveries.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/histgeol/agassiz/glacial.htm (982 words)

	Search Results for Edinburgh
		James was born into a wealthy family for his father William was a merchant who held the office of Edinburgh city treasurer.
		James Gregory, not the famous mathematician of that name but rather the lesser known James Gregory who was a brother of David Gregory, held the chair of mathematics at Edinburgh but had become too ill to carry out the work.
		James junior, the subject of this biography, was educated at Dundee Academy, then at the University of St Andrews, completing his studies at Edinburgh University.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Edinburgh&CONTEXT=1 (14360 words)

	Dunn & Brigden Family Trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Christina FORREST was born in 1838 in Hobart Tasmania.
		James FORREST was born on 9 Aug 1831.
		Isaballa FREEL was born on 28 Nov 1861 in Forbes NSW.
	users.bigpond.net.au /prdunn/b33.html (723 words)

	Clerk-Maxwell \| James \| 1831-1879 \| professor of experimental physics, University of Cambridge
		James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), one of the finest scientific minds in history, was mocked at school for his perceived stupidity.
		Though he had shown scientfic curiosity from a very young age, Maxwell's intelligence was not immediately obvious to his more literary-minded peers at the Edinburgh Academy, partly because of his interest in science, which they did not understand, and partly because of his reluctance to socialise with them.
		At the University of Edinburgh, he was influenced by James David Forbes (1809-1868) and at Cambridge by GG Stokes (1819-1903).
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1314.html (617 words)

	The Theory of Glacial Motion, by Alfred Russel Wallace
		He correctly dismisses some of the fallacies current at the time, giving reasons why ice motion cannot be due to freeze-thaw action or "molecular adjustment." His own preferred mechanism, of localised fracture and regelation (healing of fractures by refreezing) is closer to the mark, but still not complete.
		In fact, the correct mechanisms of ice flow--involving visco-plastic deformation in response to gravity--had been recognised by James David Forbes some years previously, although serious problems remained with ice flow theory that were not really addressed until the 1950s.
		Forbes, an otherwise perceptive field worker and theorist, had dismissed sliding as unimportant.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S184.htm (987 words)

	Overview of Prof. James David Forbes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Edinburgh, the grandson of the noted Edinburgh banker Sir William Forbes (1739 - 1806), Forbes was educated at the University of Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh at the age of only 19.
		In 1833, Forbes was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh but left in 1860 to succeed Sir David Brewster (1781 - 1868) as Principal of St Andrews University and served in this role until his death.
		Forbes became interested in strcuture and movement of glaciers when he met the Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz (1807-73) in Glasgow.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1515.html (212 words)

	USC Hancock Collection Short Title List, 1850-1899 - F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Forbes, Henry Ogg (1851-1932) A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago...
		Forbes, James David (1809-1868) Occasional papers on the theory of glaciers.
		Forbes, Stephen Alfred (1844-1930) Arsenical poisons for the codling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella, L.).
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/findingaids/hancockcollection/post50f.htm (886 words)

	Talbot Correspondence Project: FORBES James David to TALBOT William Henry Fox, Tue [04781] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Talbot Correspondence Project: FORBES James David to TALBOT William Henry Fox, Tue [04781]
		Forbes was professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh 1833–1859.
		Forbes had been in ill-health since at least 1843.
	www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk /corresp/04781.asp?target=1 (141 words)

	A History of Science Volume III - Part VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fresnel was twenty-six when he made his first important discoveries in the same field; and Arago, who at once became his champion, was then but two years his senior, though for a decade he had been so famous that one involuntarily thinks of him as belonging to an elder generation.
		Forbes was under thirty when he discovered the polarization of heat, which pointed the way to Mohr, then thirty-one, to the mechanical equivalent.
		Joule was twenty-two in 1840, when his great work was begun; and Mayer, whose discoveries date from the same year, was then twenty-six, which was also the age of Helmholtz when he published his independent discovery of the same law.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/sci/history/AHistoryofScienceVolumeIII/chap57.html (984 words)

	Margaret Champ Forbes Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky and Pleasant Green, Cooper County, Missouri
		According to David Forbes, right after their marriage Samuel and Margaret moved to Wayne County, Kentucky.
		Samuel and Margaret Forbes were among the charter members of the Pleasant Green Methodist Church in 1925.
		The Forbes graves are marked by flat vaults.
	www.lyndonirwin.com /forbes.htm (292 words)

	Royal Society \| About the Society \| Awards, medals and prize lectures \| Prize lectures \| Archive Bakerian lectures 1899 ...
		1846 James David Forbes: Illustrations of the Viscous Theory of Glacier Motion.
		1842 James David Forbes: On the Transparency of the Atmosphere and the Law of Extinction of the Solar Rays in passing through it.
		1838 James Ivory: On the Theory of the Astronomical Refractions.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=1793 (1379 words)

	AIM25: King's College London College Archives: James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
		Administrative/Biographical history: The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation was launched in 1977 to promote research and education in science and technology.
		In 1992 the Foundation bought the birthplace of James Clerk Maxwell in Edinburgh, sharing the cost with ICMS (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences), formed by a consortium of Scottish Universities.
		Immediate source of acquisition: The collection was given to the Principal by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation when the commemorative plaque to Maxwell was unveiled at King's College London in Jun 1996.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/6/1067.htm (200 words)

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		David Masson, biographer of Milton and Drummond of Hawthornden, is born, Aberdeen 12 02.01(LS)**
		He was a leading supporter of James MacPherson’s ‘Ossianic’ poetry.
		Stevenson (1892-1973), novelist-daughter of RLS's cousin David, dies, Moffat.
	members.aol.com /butineurs/calendar.htm (622 words)

	Amazon.com: Beam Me Up, Scotty: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the recent passing of James Doohan last week this brief autobiobraphy will remain the one and only commentary on his life.
		I liked this autobiography by James Doohan because he didn't try to "pretty up" the events that occurred in his life, or sugar-coat his opinions of others.
		James Doohan was the personal assistant to Meisner at the Playhouse for years, and you don't get in that position for nothing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671520563?v=glance (1810 words)

	The Great Glacier Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As early as 1795 James Hutton had recognized the fact that boulders in the Jura mountains contained material consistent with origin in the Alps, and his explanation was expectedly uniformitarian.
		As a guest of Agassiz in 1841, James David Forbes, a leading figure in the scientific world, casusally mentioned that he had noticed a characteristic vertical stratification in the ice of glaciers.
		Once widespread acceptance of the concept of ice ages was in place, the stage was set for a remarkable discovery: the Earth has been subject to numerous ice ages over the course of its existence.
	www.emporia.edu /earthsci/student/sedlacek1/website.htm (2331 words)

	SOHP Scholarship--David Forbes Interview
		David Cecelski's "Listening to History Series" in the Raleigh News & Observer
		The Rev. David Forbes, a former student leader at Shaw and now the minister at Christian Faith Baptist Church, recalls those momentous events and the families and schools that shaped the SNCC activists.
		But very quickly, as the students talked, we decided that it was not these folks who got us there.
	www.sohp.org /research/lfac/N&O/6.5b23-David_Forbes.html (1120 words)

	SIGIRI - Online Information article about SIGIRI
		Forbes in 1835 the portions of the gallery where it had been exposed for so many centuries to the See also:
		They are older than any others found in India, and have been carefully copied, and, as far as possible, preserved.
		Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIGIRI.html (747 words)

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