The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell - Hardcover

Mahon, Basil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047086088X ISBN 13: 9780470860885

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"...[the book] is well set to achieve its aim. All you have to do is read it..." -- Scottish Daily Mail, 17 October 2003

"...well-written...accessible to the non-scientist..." -- Lloyds List, Jan 05

"..Basil Mahon does a good job of raising the profile of the greatest of all Scots Scientists..." -- Sunday Herald, 12 October 2003

"..Full of warmth and personal detail...an inspiring account of a man with legendary imagination.." -- Materials World, Decmber 2003

"..Mahon tells the tale of Maxwell’s childhood economically but well.." -- Nature, 23 October 2003

"..On the ever-expanding Science and Technology front I really liked The Man Who Changed Everything.." -- Sunday Herald, 7 December 2003

"..a good introduction to the thought of a great man.." -- Royal Society of Topical Medicine

"..a readable and straightforward biography.." (Sunday Telegraph, 28 September 2003)
review: "..Mahon's biography is sincere and affectionate.." -- The Scotsman, 4 October 2003

"..a sympathetic, eminently readable and interesting biography of one of the intellectual giants of the 19th century." -- IEE Review, February 2004

"..an inspiring account of a man with legendary imagination.." -- Galloway News, 11 September 2003

From the Back Cover:

‘Since Maxwell’s time, physical reality has been thought of as represented by continuous fields, and not capable of any mechanical interpretation. This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.’

Albert Einstein

‘He is easily, to physicists, the most magical figure of the nineteenth century.’

Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 047086088X
• ISBN 13: 9780470860885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254