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9780470012543

The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470012543

  • ISBN10:

    0470012544

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2010-06-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

‘Since Maxwell’s time, physical reality has been thought of as represented by continuous fields, and not capable of any mechanical interpretation. This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.’ –Albert Einstein

‘He is easily, to physicists, the most magical figure of the nineteenth century.’ 
–Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology: principal events in Maxwell's life
Cast of characters: Maxwell's relations and close friends
Introduction
A country boy: Glenlair 1831-1841
Pins and string: Edinburgh Academy 1841-1847
Philosophy: Edinburgh University 1847-1850
Learning to juggle: Cambridge 1850-1854
Blue and yellow make pink: Cambridge 1854-1856
Saturn and statistics: Aberdeen 1856-1860
Spinning cells: London 1860-1862
The beautiful equations: London 1862-1865
The Laird at home: Glenlair 1865-1870
The Cavendish: Cambridge 1870-1879
Last days
Maxwell's legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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