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James Clerk Maxwell : perspectives on his life and work /

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 m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Flood, Raymond, McCartney, Mark, Whitaker, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
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505 8 |a DANIEL M. SIEGEL11. The Maxwellians: The Reception and Further Development of Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory; CHEN-PANG YEANG; 12. The Fluid Dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell; KEITH MOFFATT; Part III: Poetry, Religion and Conclusions; 13. Boundaries of Perception: James Clerk Maxwell's Poetry of Self, Senses and Science; STELLA PRATT-SMITH; 14. Maxwell, Faith and Physics; PHILIP L. MARSTON; 15. I Remember Years and Labours as a Tale that I have Read; MARK McCARTNEY; Notes on Contributors; Notes and References; Index. 
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