TY - BOOK ID - 78640625 TI - James Clerk Maxwell : perspectives on his life and work AU - McCartney, Mark AU - Flood, Raymond AU - Whitaker, Andrew PY - 2014 SN - 0191641251 9780191641251 9781306300544 1306300541 9780199664375 0199664374 019164126X PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Physicists KW - Maxwell, James Clerk, KW - Maksvell, Dzhems Klerk, KW - Maxwell, J. Clerk KW - Maxwell, J. C. KW - Maxwell, Clerk, KW - Maksvell, Dzheĭms Klerk, KW - Electromagnetism KW - Science KW - History KW - history KW - Electromagnetism - History KW - Science - history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78640625 AB - 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 was 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 wi ER -