The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk MaxwellJohn Wiley & Sons, 8 abr 2015 - 256 páginas 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. |
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CHAPTERTHREEPHILOSOPHY | |
CHAPTER FIVE BLUEANDYELLOW | |
CHAPTER SIX SATURN | |
CHAPTERSEVEN | |
CHAPTEREIGHT THE BEAUTIFULEQUATIONS CHAPTER NINE THE LAIRD AT HOME CHAPTER TEN THE CAVENDISH | |
CHAPTERTWELVE MAXWELLS LEGACY NOTES | |
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