Category: Biographies
“One who has enriched the inheritance left by Newton and has consolidated the work of Faraday--one who impelled the mind of Cambridge to a fresh course of real investigation--has clearly earned his place in human memory.” It was thus that Professor Lewis Campbell and Mr. Garne...
Clerk Maxwell’s first electrical paper--that on Faraday’s “Lines of Force”--was read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on December 10th, 1855, and Part II. on February 11th...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Maxwell in his article “Atom,” in the ninth edition of the _Encyclopædia Britannica_, has given some account of Modern Molecular Science, and in particular of the molecular theo...
10. CHAPTER X.We have endeavoured in the preceding pages to give some account of Maxwell’s contributions to electrical theory and the physics of the ether. We must now consider very briefly w...
1. CHAPTER I.“One who has enriched the inheritance left by Newton and has consolidated the work of Faraday--one who impelled the mind of Cambridge to a fresh course of real investigation--ha...
6. CHAPTER VI.But the laboratory was not yet built. A Syndicate, of which Maxwell was a member, was appointed to consider the question of a site, to take professional advice, and to obtain pl...
3. CHAPTER III.From this time on Maxwell’s life becomes a record of his writings and discoveries. It will, however, probably be clearest to separate as far as possible biographical details fro...
7. CHAPTER VII.Fifteen years only have passed since the death of Clerk Maxwell, and it is almost too soon to hope to form a correct estimate of the value of his work and its relation to that o...
5. CHAPTER V.During his retirement at Glenlair from 1865 to 1870 Maxwell was frequently at Cambridge. He examined in the Mathematical Tripos in 1866 and 1867, and again in 1869 and 1870.
2. CHAPTER II.Maxwell did not remain long at Peterhouse; before the end of his first term he migrated to Trinity, and was entered under Dr. Thompson December 14th, 1850. He appeared to the tu...
11. Part I., one hundred and three names.[41] Under the new regulations Physics was removed from the first part of the Tripos and formed, with the more advanced parts of Astronomy and Pure Mathematics, a part by itself...
4. CHAPTER IV.In 1860 Forbes resigned the chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh. Maxwell and Tait were candidates, and Tait was appointed. In the summer of the same year Maxwell obtained t...