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James Clerk Maxwell :

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0199664374

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9780199664375

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James Clerk Maxwell :

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[Book]

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perspectives on his life and work /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, Andrew Whitaker

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First edition

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x, 364 pages :

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illustrations (black and white, and colour) ;

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25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Cover -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS: Part I: Life: 1. Introduction/RAYMOND FLOOD -- 2. Maxwell at Aberdeen/JOHN S. REID -- 3. Maxwell at King's College, London/JOHN S. REID -- 4. Cambridge and Building the Cavendish Laboratory/ISOBEL FALCONER -- Part II: Science: 5. Maxwell and the Science of Colour/MALCOLM LONGAIR -- 6. Maxwell and the Rings of Saturn/ANDREW WHITAKER -- 7. Maxwell's Kinetic Theory 1859-70/ELIZABETH GARBER -- 8. Maxwell and the Theory of Liquids/JOHN S. ROWLINSON -- 9. Maxwell's Famous (or Infamous) Demon/ANDREW WHITAKER -- 10. Maxwell's Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism/DANIEL M. SIEGEL -- 11. The Maxwellians: The Reception and Further Development of Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory/ CHEN-PANG YEANG -- 12. The Fluid Dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell/KEITH MOFFATT -- Part III: Poetry, Religion and Conclusions: 13. Boundaries of Perception: James Clerk Maxwell's Poetry of Self, Senses and Science/STELLA PRATT-SMITH -- 14. Maxwell, Faith and Physics/PHILIP L. MARSTON -- 15. I Remember Years and Labours as a Tale that I have Read/MARK McCARTNEY -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes and References -- Index

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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge. His scholarship also ranged wide - covering all the major aspects of Victorian natural philosophy. He was one of the most important mathematical physicists of all time, coming only after Newton and Einstein.In scientific terms his immortality is enshrined in electromagnetism and Maxwell's equations, but as this book shows, there was much more to Maxwell than electromagnetism, both in terms of his science and his wi

Maxwell, James Clerk,1831-1879

Electromagnetism-- History

Mathematical physics-- History

Mathematicians-- Scotland, Biography

Physicists-- Scotland, Biography

Science-- History

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Flood, Raymond

McCartney, Mark,1967-

Whitaker, Andrew,1946-

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20140517230724.0

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