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This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Good biography, inadequate history of science
The first eleven chapters of this book provide a competent biography of James Clerk Maxwell. The last chapter attempts to give a big-picture assessment of Maxwell's scientific legacy. The biography is very good. The author integrates material from many different sources. The organization is chronological and the prose is simple and direct. There are several pages of interesting photographs, nearly twenty five pages of end notes and a short but adequate bibliography. These features are just what most engineers want and expect from a biography. Maxwell's decency, honesty, modesty and wry sense of humor come shining through the pages. Some of the details of Maxwell's personal life came as a surprise. For example, as a young man Maxwell fell in love with his 14 year old cousin Lizzie. They planned to marry after she turned 16, but their families persuaded them not to because of fears about cosanguinity. At the age of 27 Maxwell married the 34 year old daughter of the Principal of the College where he was teaching. He was happily married for more than twenty years before dying of stomach cancer, a disease for which his family had a strong genetic tendency.

The descriptions of Maxwell's work on color theory and statistical mechanics are adequate. It is obvious that author does not really understand Maxwell's Equations, but very few people do. The main problem is that the author appears to be unaware that Maxwell's theory evolved for approximately 25 years after his death before achieving the form known as 'Maxwell's Equations.' Interesting aspects of this development include 1) the incommensurability of the Continental and British paradigms during the second half of the 19th century, 2) how George Fitzgerald, Oliver Heaviside, Oliver Lodge and other 'Maxwellians' modified Maxwell's formulation in various ways, some of which were counter-productive, 3) how the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 undermined Maxwell's ether-based ontology, 4) how, after electrons were discovered in 1895, charge was grafted into the theory, 5) how the Vogt transformation (now known as the Lorentz transformation) was used by Poincare and Lorentz as a way of compensating for limitations of Maxwell's ether-based ontology, and 6) how Einstein developed the Special Theory of Relativity as a way to obtain the Lorentz transformation from two postulates. If the book had included a brief synopsis of this period I would probably have given it 5 stars. Instead, the last chapter makes unsupported claims that will seem highly exaggerated to people who are familiar with the history of science during the 19th century.

Maxwell was a very fine scientist and a very fine person, but he was not 'the man who changed everything.' I give this book four stars for what it includes and subtract one star for what it neglects, resulting in an overall rating of three stars.

Maxwell's Smart
I have been reading Maxwell's original papers while having a go at electrodynamics and have been astonished at the clarity and beauty of his thought. While many undergraduates have encountered Maxwell's equations or Heaviside's reduction of them, few outside of the physics community know of him. I wanted to know more about this inspiring scientist. Mr. Mahon's clearly affectionate biography provided me with an eye-opening sense of the depth and breadth of this remarkable man. His biography examines several facets of his life and provides a sense of how widely his curiosity and accomplishments ranged. From early work on curves to a theory of color and a color diagram that has bearing on the RGB system used in computer and television screens, to the stability of the rings of Saturn to the kinetic theory of gases to the pinnacle of Maxwell's achievement, the "Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field", Mr. Mahon clearly shows the genius of the man. In addition, though, the reader gets the sense that this was an exemplary man, who inspired those around him. Maxwell was that great rarity, a person of great accomplishment who retains an appropriate sense of humility and tentativeness regarding "underlying reality". That he was polymathic and was imbued with a keen appreciation of poetry and a sense of quiet mischief also becomes clear in this excellent biography. Maxwell was a Mensch.

Why James Clerk Maxwell isn't held in higher regard, particularly in his home country, is a question that naturally comes to mind and Mr. Mahon provides some thought-provoking speculation as to why this might be. I wonder if a BBC production of Professor Maxwell's life would not, in addition to this biography, result in relieving this excessive quiet regarding the greatest scientist of the 19th century.

Mr. Mahon provides a superb bibliography that serves as the basis for further reading about James Clerk Maxwell. Thank you, Mr. Mahon for this wonderful book.

A Great Book about Great Science Discoveries
If you have interest in any kind of Science, you'll love this book.But even if you're an Electrical Engineer, you will love it!

It's a book about some important Science Discoveries in the mid-1800's... and James Clerk Maxwell, who was one of the prolific discoverers.Other names you've heard are also in this book, and how their lives & discoveries intertwined w/ those of Maxwell's.

A definite THUMBS-UP!

Maxwell's life
An excellent easy-reading account of Maxwell's life.
After reading this book and discover all the fundamental work developed by Maxwell you can not help to wonder why he is less known than Newton or Einstein. He almost started all the new physics of the XX century but he is barely known beyond professional circles.
In sumary, a worth-reading book even for non-science inclined persons.

Great biography of a great physicist
This book is a comprehensive look at the life of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest physicists of all time. Although author Basil Mahon tried to explain Maxwell's work, the physics was still rather complicated. But the physics is not really the most important part of the book.

Mahon gives us valuable insight into Maxwell's life; his early childhood, his curiosity, his important relationship with his father, and his premature death. Also interesting was Maxwell's relationship with Michael Faraday, the subject of a biography entitled "The Electric Life of Michael Faraday" by Alan Hirshfeld. While these two physicists never really worked together, Maxwell developed the mathematics that provided the theoretical backbone to Faraday's brilliant experimental work. Mahon also does a very good job of explaining Maxwell's place in history, with his discovery of the nature of electromagnetic radiation. Even the notes at the back of the book were interesting and I recommend that you keep a bookmark there for handy reference.

Overall, this is quite a compelling book and I recommend it for anyone interested in the history of science. To gain the maximum benefit from this book I suggest that the reader first read the story of Faraday as a preamble to the life of James Clerk Maxwell. ... Read more

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Dynamic Theory of Electromagnetic Field
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FACT: Maxwell Plus Einstein!
Not only does it provide Maxwell's original work, it also includes the 1954 translation of Albert Einsteins 1931 Appreciation to Maxwell, written to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Maxwell in 1831--this one of at least three major translations of Einstien's In Appreciation of Maxwell Essay.

Maxwell's Theory and Equations
This text is the classic work of James Clerk Maxwell. It is an essay, printed by the Royal Society of London in 1864 which gives a full insight into Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves.

Maxwell's equations are of course the entire basis of modern electromagnetic theory. It is much easier to view these ideas here, in this brief form, than to wade through the 1873 and later editions of Maxwell's mammoth "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism".

The primary benefit of this small volume is the easy access to this paper. One would otherwise have to go for a collection of Maxwell's papers, which would be somewhat more expensive. The preface to the volume is a useful addition to the work. However, the Introduction by Thomas F. Torrance is a bit over the top. It also introduces a bit of a Theological `spin' to the material, which is not surprising when you see how many Theological/Religious texts this fellow is involved with.

Take or leave this 27 page introduction as you wish. The fact remains that you still get Maxwell, which is why you wanted the book in the first place! ... Read more

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Described by Einstein as "the most important event in physics since Newton's time," the discovery by James Clerk Maxwell that a vast array of phenomena could be united by four elegant formulas remains one of the greatest successes of modern physics. Originally published in 1891, this renowned treatise presents the original work which forms the basis for everything from computers to quantum mechanics. Volume I covers electrostatics and electrokinematics. ... Read more

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Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Maxwell
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Back to the 19th Century
It's reading such a book we can understand how powerfull was the 19th Century scientific thought. Maxwell, was a genius as was Newton and Einstein, his book is didactic and clear. A must have.

This book is the fountainhead of physics
I suggest that some reviewers miss the significance of Maxwell's book Electricity and Magnetism.

First, it introduced "Dimensional Analysis" which is the standard against which ALL physics models must be tested.

Equations are maths.
Units are politics.
Dimensional Analysis is physics.
( If a model doesn't fit Maxwell's Dimensions, it is not correct.)

Secondly, Maxwell established the framework for Quantum Mechanics when he showed that statistics, rather than two-body math, is required to model multi-body systems.

Thirdly, Maxwell established the framework for modern atomic theory by postulating dimensionless points, and assembling the
points into atoms, molecules, and larger structures, while leaving room for finer complex assembles of points such as quarks and neutrinos.

Fourthly, Maxwell laid the ground work for the Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions, which are slight modifications of Maxwell's distribution to account for the separation of matter into two classes, bosons and fermions.

Fifthly, Einstein's much touted paper on Brownian movement is a variation of Maxwell's more comprehensive treatment of the
velocity distribution of particles.

Just as most historians parrot Herodotus, most physicists parrot Maxwell, but none come close to the masters.
Maxwell was the fountainhead of modern physics, and this book is his best.

Good stuff
There's alot of interesting stuff here.Very informative about history yes, but it is still probably the best text on eletromagnetic theory.There is some advanced math in here. I only read part of it for a research project(its huge).From this(and the equation contained within) came the basis for all of modern physics.Maxwell's equations are inconsistent in some ways with classical mechanics.To compensate, physicists had to create relatvity and quantum mechanics.Maxwell's work was not all new stuff.He took other people's theories and summed them up in his book.He then predicted the existence of EM waves and such .

A classic that still is worth reading
Whenever I teach a course which touches on electric or magnetic phenomena I find myself going through this book. It works well with the early chapters of Jackson, in particular, and Smythe. Maxwell knew the subject thoroughly, up to the 1870s (and much of this material has since dropped out of courses and almost out of memory), his thinking was both profound and clear,and he may well be the best writer on physics in the English language. His proofs are economical and elegant. Oh yes - this book is still a good reference for the treatment of spherical harmonics and multipole expansions in Cartesian coordinates. ... Read more

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Treatise on Electricity
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Maxwel, maxwell, maxwell
Maxwell used to teach working class people physics (as part of his socialist convictions) at the University of London among other places and these elementary books are a product of those lectures. It must have been surreal to be part of those lectures and learn from the grand master of physics. It is such a great pity that he died at 47. Had he lived, he would easily have crafted The Special Theory of Relativity as well.

Some Reverence Required
Just as some assembly is required as with a good chair for the study, some reverence is required to understand this book.

Mordern physics is founded less on math (as some institutional slimeballs would have us believe) and more on the accurate revelations and precision wording--plus just a dash of intellectual wiggle-room--of our most distinguished and revered. ... Read more

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Volume: 1Publisher: New York, Dover PublicationsPublication date: 1890Subjects: PhysicsMathematicsElectromagnetismGasesMatterNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:process of radiation as heat. We have defined heat as it exists in hot bodies, and we have seen that all heat is of the same kind. But the radiation between bodies differs from heat as we have denned it—1st, in not making the body hot through which it passes ; 2nd, in being of many different kinds. Hence we shall generally speak of radiation, and when we speak of radiant heat we do not mean to imply the existence of a new kind of heat, but to consider radiation in its thermal aspect.ON THE DIFFERENT PHYSICAL STATES OF BODIES.Bodies are found to behave in different ways under the action of forces. If we cause a longitudinal pressure to act oh a body in one diiection by means of a pair of pincers or a vice, the body being free to move in all other directions, we find that if the body is a piece of cold iron there is very little effect produced, unless the pressure be very great; if the body is a piece of india-rubber, it is compressed in the direction of its length and bulges out at the sides, but it soon comes into a state of equilibrium, in which it continues to support the pressure; but if we substitute water for the india-rubber we cannot perform the experiment, for the water flows away laterally, and the jaws of the pincers come together without having exerted any appreciable pressure.Bodies which can sustain a longitudinal pressure, however small that pressure may be, without being supported by a lateral pressure, are called solid bodies. Those which cannot do so are called fluids. We shall see that in a fluid at rest the pressure at any point must be equal in all directions, and this pressure is called the pressure of the fluid.There are two great classes of fluids. If we put into a closed vessel a small quantity of a fluid of the first class, such as water, i... ... Read more

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Theory of Heat
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This is an awesome book!
Maxwell does a great job of explaining thermodynamics in a manner that is clear to anyone with a term of physics.This was written at a time when people took the time to show all of the steps.

Maxwell is one of the brightest stars of the physics universe and everything we do in our current culture is based on his work. ... Read more

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This book provides an introductory yet comprehensive account of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-79) physics and world view. The argument is structured by a focus on the fundamental themes that shaped Maxwell's science: analogy and geometry, models and mechanical explanation, statistical representation and the limitations of dynamical reasoning, and the relation between physical theory and its mathematical description. This approach, which considers his physics as a whole, bridges the disjunction between Maxwell's greatest contributions: the concept of the electromagnetic field and the kinetic theory of gases. Maxwell's work and ideas are viewed historically in terms of his indebtedness to scientific and cultural traditions, of Edinburgh experimental physics, and of Cambridge mathematics and philosophy of science, which nurtured his career.Peter M. Harman is Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University.He has published primarily on the history of physics and natural philosophy in the 18th and 19th centuries, the period from Newton to Maxwell. His previous books include Energy, Force, and Matter (Cambridge, 1982), The Investigation of Difficult Things (Cambridge, 1992), After Newton:Essays on Natural Philosophy (Variorum, 1993), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, volume 1 (Cambridge, 1990), volume 2 (Cambridge, 1995). ... Read more

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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) is generally considered the most important mathematical physicist in the period between Newton and Einstein. His work, like theirs, exhibits range as well as depth and extends from his grand synthesis of electrical, magnetic, and optical phenomena in the theory of electromagnetic fields to his contributions to the kinetic theory of gases and its generalization into statistical mechanics.Maxwell on Saturn's Rings (The MIT Press, 1983) focused on the early work that confirmed Maxwell's scientific promise. The present volume deals with the evolution of Maxwell's overview of atomic and statistical physics and with his work on the kinetic theory of transport phenomena in gases. It includes 92 documents and papers spanning the years 1859-1879. Among these are previously unpublished notes, drafts, and calculations and correspondence with Peter Guthrie Tait, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Herbert Spencer, George Gabbriel Stokes, Simon Newcomb, and others.The reader can trace Maxwell's insights from their inception to their fruition in the fully worked-out formal papers and shorter communications to Nature that are also included. The documents reveal the stages through which key concepts passed - such as the idea that diffusion, viscosity, and heat conduction in gases are parallel dynamical processes expressed in terms of the transfer of mass, momentum, and energy - and show Maxwell's skill in balancing abstract philosophical generalization with concrete practical detail.The editors have provided a comprehensive introduction that places the material in historical context. A forthcoming volume on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will conclude their presentation of Maxwell's scientific development.Elizabeth Garber and Stephen G. Brush are historians of science affiliated with the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Maryland, respectively. C. W. F. Everitt is a physicist and historian of science associated with Stanford University. ... Read more

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Arguably the most influential nineteenth-century scientist for twentieth-century physics, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) demonstrated that electricity, magnetism and light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field. A fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Maxwell became, in 1871, the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. His famous equations - a set of four partial differential equations that relate the electric and magnetic fields to their sources, charge density and current density - first appeared in fully developed form in his 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. This two-volume textbook brought together all the experimental and theoretical advances in the field of electricity and magnetism known at the time, and provided a methodical and graduated introduction to electromagnetism. Volume 1 covers the first elements of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory: electrostatics, and electrokinematics, including detailed analyses of electrolysis, conduction in three dimensions, and conduction through heterogeneous media. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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From the first time they were dimly sighted through Galileo's telescope to the recent spectacular pictures beamed back by Voyager, Saturn's rings have fascinated generations of observers. The scientific problems associated with them have also attracted the attention of successive generations of theoreticians.

James Clerk Maxwell's 1856 Adams Prize Essay, "On the Stability of the Motion of Saturn's Rings," forms the central body of this book and is the work that first established his reputation as one of the greatest mathematical physicists of any generation. It is surrounded by previously unpublished materials written both before and after the essay was completed. The former group consists of sixteen letters - to William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), George Gabriel Stokes, Peter Guthrie Tait, and other friends and colleagues - written while Maxwell was working out the problems and preparing the essay for publication, and they reveal both the sureness of his approach and false starts and errors. The post-essay documents include a review of the work by George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal, and correspondence with the Harvard astronomer George Bond in 1863. Here Maxwell attempts to extend his analysis to include the effects of collisions among the particles of the ring, employing his own newly developed kinetic theory of gases. The editors' introduction provides a historical context for Maxwell's contribution. ... Read more

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Chapters: Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, John Napier, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell, John Logie Baird, Robert Watson-Watt, James Dewar, Charles Macintosh, William Kennedy Dickson, David Brewster, James Bowman Lindsay, Fleeming Jenkin, William Murdoch, James Nasmyth, John Loudon Mcadam, Alexander Graham Bell Honors and Tributes, Barbara Gilmour, Charles Tennant, James Young Simpson, William John Macquorn Rankine, Robert Liston, John Claudius Loudon, James Keir, James Gregory, Alexander Bain, David Mushet, John Robison, John Aitken, William Symington, Patrick Ferguson, David Bruce, John Scott Haldane, Robert Francis Fairlie, Hamish Macinnes, James Howden, James David Forbes, James W. Black, Robert William Thomson, James Harrison, Philip Howard Colomb, David Dunbar Buick, Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Robert Wauchope, John Macgregor, Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet, James Chalmers, John Lee, John Boyd Dunlop, John H. D. Anderson, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Robert Stirling, George Tosh, Ian Donald, George Johnston, James Paris Lee, Archibald Sturrock, James Beaumont Neilson, Mungo Ponton, Sir William Fergusson, 1st Baronet, Arthur James Arnot, Robert Davidson, Dugald Clerk, James Porteous, George Bruce of Carnock, John Shepherd-Barron, Thomas Stevenson, James Anderson of Hermiston, Henry Liston, James Smith, William Nicol, William Boog Leishman, Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, Robert Stirling Newall, Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine, James Goodfellow, Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, Thomas Mccall, Patrick Bell, Andrew Meikle, Alexander Adie, Alexander Allan, George Brown, James Blyth, Thomas Coughtrie, William Ged, Robert Anderson, James Small. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 457. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=852 ... Read more

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JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND MODERN PHYSICS byR T. GLAZEBROOK.Originally published in 1895.PREFACE:THE task of giving some account of Maxwells work of describing the share that he has taken in the advance of Physical Science during the latter halt of this nineteenth century has proved no light labour. The problems which he attacked are of such magnitude and complexity, that the attempt to explain them and their importance, satisfactorily, without the aid of symbols, is almost foredoomed to failure. However, the attempt has been made, in the belief that there are many who, though they cannot follow the mathematical analysis of Maxwells work, have sufficient general knowledge of physical ideas and principles to make an account of Maxwell and of the development of the truths that he dis covered, subjects of intelligent interest. Maxwells life was written in 1882 by two of those who were most intimately connected with him, Pro fessor Lewis Campbell and Dr. Garnett. Many of the biographical details of the earlier part of this book are taken from their work. My thanks are due to them and to their publishers, Messrs. Macmillan, for permission to use any of the letters which appear in their biography. I trust that my brief account may be sufficient to induce many to read Professor Campbells Life and Letters, with a view of learn ing more of the inner thoughts of one who has left so strong an imprint on all he undertook, and was so deeply loved by all who knew him. R. T. G. Cambridge, December, 1895. Contents include: . PACK On AFTER I. EARLY LIFE 9 II. UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE ... 28 III. EARLY RESEARCHES-PROFESSOR AT ABERDEEN . 38 ,, IV. PROFESSOR AT KINGS COLLEGE, LONDON LIFE AT GLENLAIR 54 V. CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS ... CO ,, VI. CAMBRIDGE THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY . . 73 VII. SCIENTIFIC WORK COLOUR VISION . . .93 VIII. SCIENTIFIC WORK MOLECULAR THEORY . . 108 j, IX. SCJEXTIFIC WORK ELECTRICAL THEORIES . .148 X. DEVELOPMENT OF MAXWELLS THEORY . . 202.JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND MODERN PHYSICS. CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. ONE who has enriched the inheritance left by Newton and has consolidated the work of Faraday one who impelled the mind of Cambridge to a fresh course of real investigation has clearly earned his place in human memory. It was thus that Professor Lewis Campbell and Mr. Garnett began in 1882 their life of James Clerk Maxwell. The years which have passed, since that date, have all tended to strengthen the belief in the greatness of Maxwells work and in the fertility of his genius, which has inspired the labours of those who, not in Cambridge only, but throughout the world, have aided in de veloping the seeds sown by him. My object in the following pages will be to give some very brief account of his life and writings, in a form which may, I hope, enable many to realise what Physical Science owes to one who was to me a most kind friend as well as a revered master. The Clerks of Penicuik, from whom Clerk Maxwell was descended, were a distinguished family. Sir John Clerk, the great-great-grandfather of Clerk Maxwell, was a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland from 1707 to 1755 he was also one of the Commissioners of the Union, and was in many ways an accomplished scholar. His second son George married a first cousin, Dorothea Maxwell, the heiress of Middlebie in Dum friesshire, and took the name of Maxwell. By the death of his elder brother . Tames in 1782 George Clerk Maxwell succeeded to the baronetcy and the property of Penicuik, Before this time ho, had become involved in mining and manufacturing specu lations, and most of the Middlebio property had been sold to pay his debts. The property of Sir George Clerk Maxwell de scended in 1798 to his two grandsons, Sir George Clerk and Mr, John Clerk Maxwell... ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more