Research Catalog

Title

James Clerk Maxwell : perspectives on his life and work / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
• ©2014

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

• Flood, Raymond
• McCartney, Mark, 1967-
• Whitaker, Andrew, 1946-

Description

x, 364 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour); 26 cm

Summary

"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 jacket.

Subject

• Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879
• Physicists > Great Britain > Biography
• Electromagnetism > History
• Science
• Science > history
• Electromagnetic Phenomena
• Electromagnetism
• Physicists
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Life. Introduction / Raymond Flood -- Maxwell at Aberdeen / John S. Reid -- Maxwell at King's College, London / John S. Reid -- Cambridge and building the Cavendish Laboratory / Isobel Falconer -- Part II. Science. Maxwell and the science of colour / Malcolm Longair -- Maxwell and the rings of Saturn / Andrew Whitaker -- Maxwell's kinetic theory 1859-70 / Elizabeth Garber -- Maxwell and the theory of liquids / John S. Rowlinson -- Maxwell's famous (or infamous) demon / Andrew Whitaker -- Maxwell's contributions to electricity and magnetism / Daniel M. Siegel -- The Maxwellians : the reception and further development of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory / Chen-Pang Yeang -- The fluid dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell / Keith Moffatt -- Part III. Poetry, religion and conclusions. Boundaries of perception : James Clerk Maxwell's poetry of self, senses and science / Stella Pratt-Smith -- Maxwell, faith and physics / Philip L. Marston -- I remember years and labours as a tale that I have read / Mark McCartney.

Call Number

JFF 15-170

ISBN

• 9780199664375
• 0199664374

LCCN

2013942195

OCLC

869526023

Title

James Clerk Maxwell : perspectives on his life and work / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher description

Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Flood, Raymond, editor.

McCartney, Mark, 1967- editor.

Whitaker, Andrew, 1946- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-170