The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell available on March 15 2016 from Amazon for 6.82
ISBN bar code 9780470861714 ξ2 registered March 15 2016
ISBN bar code 9780470861714 ξ1 registered November 08 2012
Product category is Book
Manufacturered by Wiley
Product weight is 0.66 lbs.
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.
Who wrote these poetic lines?"Trust me spring is very near,All the buds are swelling;All the glory of the yearIn those buds is dwelling."The obvious answer is some famous poet. Right? Wrong! These are the lines in a poem written by a forgotten icon in science named James Clerk Maxwell (1831 to 1879). Learning that this great scientist was also a poet is just one of the facts you'll find in this extremely well organized, well-written, easy-to-read book authored by form..
It is amazing that such a pivotal figure in physics remains relatively unknown to the public at large. I even asked a British friend of mine -- who actually went to Cambridge -- if he knew who James Clerk Maxwell was. He hadn't the foggiest.So it's a shame that this narrow biography (barely 190 pages of actual content -- excluding end-notes, etc.) does not deliver a more compelling picture of both the man and the scientist.A good biographer must do more than coll..
