The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life Of James Clerk Maxwell. Hardback, First, 2003. Near Fine.
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The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. By Basil Mahon. Hardback, First Edition, 2003. The book itself is in Fine condition. The dust-jacket is Very Good Plus (near-Fine), with just a couple of tiny marks at the top of the spine. 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. His discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century. [Amazon Review]. Mahon's book is extremely well written and is at times hard to put down; this despite his explanations of some very sophisticated physics & mathematics, which he achieves with clarity. Maxwell's life, personality, relationships and achievements are described chronologically; schooling in Scotland, university education in Edinburgh & Cambridge and academic posts beginning and ending at Cambridge. He was a lifelong friend of both William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and P.G. Tait; the three regularly exchanging ideas. Maxwell was a gentle caring and religious man with a mischievous though never cruel sense of humour. Although the author devotes a good deal of his text to describing these endearing aspects of Maxwell's life, it is his enormous scientific and engineering achievements which shine through.
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