Book ID: CBB001451426

James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on His Life and Work (2014)

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Flood, Raymond (Author)
McCartney, Mark (Author)
Whitaker, Andrew (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: x + 364 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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 is regarded as 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 wider life. Maxwell's life and contributions to science are so rich that they demand the expertise of a range of academics--physicists, mathematicians, and historians of science and literature--to do him justice."--Dust

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Authors & Contributors
Mahon, Basil
Stanley, Matthew
Chalmers, Alan Francis
Chalmers, A. F.
Südbeck, Walter
Silva, Cibelle Celestino
Concepts
Electricity; magnetism
Physics
Electromagnetism
Biographies
Metaphors; analogies
Science education and teaching
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
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