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James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)

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Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. C. M."

James Clerk Maxwell

Works

• A Problem in Dynamics (1854)
• On Faraday's Lines of Force (1855)
• On the Stability of the Motion of Saturn's Rings, 1859
• Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases (1860)
• On Physical Lines of Force (1861)
• A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field (1865)
• On the Dynamical Theory of Gases (1867)
• On Governors (1868)
• Theory of Heat (1871)
• On the Focal Lines of a Refracted Pencil (1871)
• A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873)
• Molecules (1873)
• To the Committee of the Cayley Portrait Fund (1874)
• On Hamilton's Characteristic Function for a Narrow Beam of Light (1874)
• Matter and Motion (1876)
• On Stresses in Rarified Gases Arising from Inequalities of Temperature (1879)
• On a Possible Mode of Detecting a Motion of the Solar System through the Luminiferous Ether (1879)
• An Elementary Treatise on Electricity (1881)
• The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (published posthumously, 1890)
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Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Theory of Molecules" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (January 1874)
• "The Protection of Buildings from Lightning" in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (December 1876)

Contributions to Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition

• “Atom” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).
• “Attraction” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).
• “Ether” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1878).
• “Physical sciences” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1885).

Contributions to EB1911

• "Capillary Action," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Diagram," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Faraday, Michael," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Maxwell

• "Maxwell, James Clerk," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Sketch of James Clerk Maxwell" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (May 1880)
• "Maxwell, James Clerk," by Richard Tetley Glazebrook in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Maxwell, James Clerk," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Transcription projects

• A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism-Vol.1 & 2
• Collected Scientific Papers (Dover ed.)
• Volume 1 (transcription project)
• Volume 2 ??