Author:James Clerk Maxwell

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James Clerk Maxwell
(1831–1879)

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Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh

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

WorksEdit

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) (transcription project)
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 MonthlyEdit

Contributions to Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth EditionEdit

"Atom," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (3) (1878)
"Attraction," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (3) (1878)
"Ether," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (8) (1878)
"Physical sciences," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (19) (1885)

Contributions to EB1911Edit

"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 MaxwellEdit

"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)
"James Clerk Maxwell, in Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century (1919), edited by Alexander Macfarlane

Transcription projectsEdit

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

Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.