James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics

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Richard Glazebrook. James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics

James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics

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PREFACE

James Clerk Maxwell. AND MODERN PHYSICS

CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE

CHAPTER II. UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE

CHAPTER III. EARLY RESEARCHES.—PROFESSOR AT ABERDEEN

CHAPTER IV. PROFESSOR AT KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON.—LIFE AT GLENLAIR

CHAPTER V. CAMBRIDGE.—PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS

CHAPTER VI. CAMBRIDGE—THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY

CHAPTER VII. SCIENTIFIC WORK—COLOUR VISION

CHAPTER VIII. SCIENTIFIC WORK—MOLECULAR THEORY

CHAPTER IX. SCIENTIFIC WORK.—ELECTRICAL THEORIES

CHAPTER X. DEVELOPMENT OF MAXWELL’S THEORY

Footnote

INDEX

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Richard Glazebrook

Published by Good Press, 2021

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After a summer spent chiefly at Glenlair, he returned with his father to Edinburgh for the winter, and began, at the age of fourteen, to go to the meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. At the Society of Arts he met Mr. R.D. Hay, the decorative painter, who had interested himself in the attempt to reduce beauty in form and colour to mathematical principles. Clerk Maxwell was interested in the question how to draw a perfect oval, and devised a method of drawing oval curves which was referred by his father to Professor Forbes for his criticism and suggestions. After discussing the matter with Professor Kelland, Professor Forbes wrote as follows8:—

“My Dear Sir,—I am glad to find to-day, from Professor Kelland, that his opinion of your son’s paper agrees with mine, namely, that it is most ingenious, most creditable to him, and, we believe, a new way of considering higher curves with reference to foci. Unfortunately, these ovals appear to be curves of a very high and intractable order, so that possibly the elegant method of description may not lead to a corresponding simplicity in investigating their properties. But that is not the present point. If you wish it, I think that the simplicity and elegance of the method would entitle it to be brought before the Royal Society.—Believe me, my dear sir, yours truly,

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