The Project Gutenberg eBook, James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics, by Richard Glazebrook
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THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES
Edited by SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
AND MODERN PHYSICS
The Century Science Series.
EDITED BY
SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.P.
John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry.
By Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S.
Major Rennell, F.R.S., and the Rise of English Geography.
By Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S., President of the Royal Geographical Society.
Justus von Liebig: his Life and Work (1803–1873).
By W. A. Shenstone, F.I.C., Lecturer on Chemistry in Clifton College.
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy.
By Agnes M. Clerke, Author of “A Popular History of Astronomy during the 19th Century,” &c.
Charles Lyell and Modern Geology.
By Rev. Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S.
James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics.
By R. T. GLazebrook, F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
In Preparation.
Michael Faraday: his Life and Work.
By Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.
Humphry Davy.
By T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Principal Chemist of the Government Laboratories.
Pasteur: his Life and Work.
By M. Armand Ruffer, M.D., Director of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine.
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species.
By Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford.
Hermann von Helmholtz.
By A. W. Rücker, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in the Royal College of Science, London.
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J. Clerk Maxwell
(From a Photograph of the Picture by G. Lowes Dickinson, Esq., in the Hall of Trinity College, Cambridge.)
THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES
James Clerk Maxwell
AND MODERN PHYSICS
BY
R. T. GLAZEBROOK, F.R.S.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
University Lecturer in Mathematics, and Assistant Director of the
Cavendish Laboratory
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LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE
1896
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