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James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics (Paperback)
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James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics (Paperback)
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Loot Price R441
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From the Preface. THE task of giving some account of Maxwell's work
-- of describing the share that he has taken in the advance of
Physical Science during the latter halt of this nineteenth century
-- has proved no light labour. The problems which he attacked are
of such magnitude and complexity, that the attempt to explain them
and their importance, satisfactorily, without the aid of symbols,
is almost foredoomed to failure. However, the attempt has been
made, in the belief that there are many who, though they cannot
follow the mathematical analysis of Maxwell's work, have sufficient
general knowledge of physical ideas and principles to make an
account of Maxwell and of the development of the truths that he
discovered, subjects of intelligent interest. Maxwell's life was
written in 1882 by two of those who were most intimately connected
with him, Professor Lewis Campbell and Dr. Garnett. Many of the
biographical details of the earlier part of this book are taken
from their work....
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