The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk MaxwellThis 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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The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell Basil Mahon No preview available - 2005 |
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