The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell [SCM]
by Basil Mahon Author
(From Amazon): 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.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0470861711
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 12
- Pages
- 256
- Suggested Grades
- 10th - 12th
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Edition
- 1
- Copyright
- 2004
Chapters
- 1 A country boy: Glenlair 1831-1841
- 2 Pins and string: Edinburgh Academy 1841-1847
- 3 Philosophy: Edinburgh University 1847-1850
- 4 Learning to juggle: Cambridge 1850-1854
- 5 Blue and yellow make pink: Cambridge 1854-1856
- 6 Saturn and statistics: Aberdeen 1856-1860
- 7 Spinning cells: London 1860-1862
- 8 The beautiful equations: London 1862-1865
- 9 The Laird at home: Glenlair 1865-1871
- 10 The Cavendish: Cambridge 1871-1879
- 11 Last days
- 12 Maxwell's legacy
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