The Life of James Clerk Maxwell : With a Selection from his Correspondence and Occasional Writings and a Sketch of his Contributions to Science (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Biographical Outline: 1. Birth and parentage; 2. Glenlair - childhood, 1831?1841; 3. Boyhood, 1841?1844; 4. Adolescence, 1844?1847; 5. Opening manhood, 1847?1850; 6. Undergraduate life at Cambridge, 1850?1854; 7. Bachelor-scholar and fellow of Trinity, 1854?1856; 8. Essays at Cambridge, 1853?1856; 9. Death of his father. Professorship at Aberdeen, 1856?1857; 10. Aberdeen. Marriage, 1857?1860; 11. King's College, London. Glenair, 1860?1870; 12. Cambridge, 1871?1879; 13. Illness and death, 1879; 14. Last essays at Cambridge; Part II. Contributions to Science: 1. Experiments on colour vision, and other contributions to optics; 2. Investigations respecting elastic solids; 3. Pure geometry; 4. Mechanics; 5. Saturn's rings; 6. Faraday's lines of force, and Maxwell's theory of the electromagnetic field; 7. Molecular physics; Part III. Poems: 1. Juvenile verses and translations; 2. Occasional pieces; 3. Serio-comic verse; Index.