What textbook did William Thomson write with Peter Guthrie Tait?

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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron — William Thomson, Baron Kelvin William Thomson, Baron Kelvin.

William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, collaborated with the Scottish physicist Peter Guthrie Tait to write the influential textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which was published in 1867.1

This work was significant for tracing the concept of the conservation of energy back to the foundational studies of Sir Isaac Newton, playing a vital role in the development of the modern understanding of energy and its properties.1