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"Mahon has written a first-rate book on Maxwell's science and legacy."
-New Scientist
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…
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The ability of brilliant scientists in recent centuries to grasp the inner workings of nature fascinates me.
William Gilbert understood magnetism, Isaac Newton formulated a theory of light, and Benjamin Franklin comprehended the unitary nature of electricity. I admire the man who put it all together, James Clerk Maxwell. He was kind, a bit awkward, creative, a devoted husband and teacher, and deeply religious, like many people I know.
Extraordinarily curious from a young age, Maxwell discerned that electric current pervades all things, moving at the speed of light and constantly generating magnetic fields. And this was only the most…
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