Treatise on Natural Philosophy was an 1867 text book by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Peter Guthrie Tait, published by Oxford University Press.
, as explained by Alexander Macfarlane:[1]: 43 The first volume was received by an enthusiastic review in Saturday Review: The Treatise was also reviewed as Elements of Natural Philosophy (1873).
[3] Thomson & Tait's Treatise on Natural Philosophy was reviewed by J. C. Maxwell in Nature of 3 July 1879 indicating the importance given to kinematics: "The guiding idea … is that geometry itself is part of the science of motion.
perpetuated a "subjectivity of force" that originated with Newton.
[5] In 1902 Alexander Macfarlane ascribed much of the inspiration of the book to William Rankine's 1865 paper "Outlines of the Science of Energetics":