Author:James David Forbes

Works

 * On the Mathematical Form of the Gothic Pendent (1836)
 * Travels through the Alps (1843)
 * Norway and its Glaciers (1853)
 * Tour of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa (1855)
 * Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers.
 * Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science,’ principally from 1775 to 1850, for the eighth edition of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’

Works about Forbes

 * Life and Letters of James David Forbes, F.R.S., etc. Principal Shairp, Professor P. G. Tait and A. Adams-Reilly (1873)
 * Professor Forbes and his Biographers, by J. Tyndall (1873)