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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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1 author picked The Man Who Changed Everything as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
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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