The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 2, 1862-1873

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CUP Archive, 1990 - 1029 sider
This is a comprehensive edition of Maxwell's manuscript papers published virtually complete and largely for the first time. Maxwell's work was of central importance in establishing and developing the major themes of the physics of the nineteenth century: his theory of the electromagnetic field and the electromagnetic theory of light and his special place in the history of physics. His fecundity of imagination and the sophistication of his examination of the foundations of physics give particular interest and importance to his writings. Volume II: 1862-1873 contains texts which illuminate Maxwell's scientific maturity. In this period he wrote the classic works on field physics and statistical molecular theory which established his unique status in the history of science. His important correspondence with Thomson and Tait provides remarkable insight into the major themes of his physics and the writing of his seminal Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873).

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Letter to William Sharpey 8 July 1862 page
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Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 14 July 1862
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Letters to George Gabriel Stokes 16 July 1862
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Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 21 July 1862
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On a paper by Thomas Romney Robinson on the spectra of electric sparks 10 September 1862
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Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 10 September 1862
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On diagrams of forces c November 1862
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Letter to John William Cunningham 5 December 1862
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 3 August 1868
416
On the absorption and dispersion of light c August 1868
419
Mathematical Tripos question c late 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 19 August 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 5 September 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 12 September 1868
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On topology c September 1868
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On continuity and topology c September 1868
439

On a paper by George Biddell Airy on stress in beams late December 1862
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Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 29 December 1862
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On the conduction of heat in gases c Spring 1863
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Letter to John William Cunningham 24 March 1863
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Letter to George Biddell Airy 14 May 1863
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Letter to William Thomson 29 May 1863
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Letter to William Thomson June 1863
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Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 9 June 1863
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Letter to John William Cunningham 27 June 1863
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Letter to William Thomson 31 July 1863
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Letter to John William Cunningham 10 August 1863
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Letter to Robert Dundas Cay 21 August 1863
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Letter to George Phillips Bond 25 August 1863
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Letter to Fleeming Jenkin 27 August 1863
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Letter to William Thomson 11 September 1863
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On a paper by Charles Chambers on the magnetic action of the sun late October 1863
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On the equilibrium and stiffness of a frame c January 1864
119
Letter to Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell 28 January 1864
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On a paper by William John Macquorn Rankine on fluid motion late February 1864
123
On the theory of Saturns rings 1864
128
Letter to Hermann Helmholtz 12 April 1864
146
Letter to John Tyndall 20 April 1864
147
On the motion of the earth through the ether c 24 April 1864
148
On a paper by John Tyndall on radiation 22 February 1866 page
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Drafts of On the dynamical theory of gases late 1865 early 1866
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Letter to William Thomson 27 February 1866
267
On a paper by Joseph David Everett on the rigidity of glass 1 March 1866
272
Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 4 April 1866
276
On the dynamical theory of gases abstract 16 May 1866
279
On a paper by Thomas Graham on the absorption and separation of gases 17 July 1866
285
On a paper by Edward Wyndham Tarn on the stability of domes 18 December 1866
288
Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 18 December 1866
291
Letter to James Joseph Sylvester 21 December 1866
294
Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 27 February 1867
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On a paper by Joseph David Everett on the determination of rigidity 4 March 1867
300
Reported comments on Brodies chemical calculus 6 June 1867
305
Letter to William Huggins 10 June 1867
306
British Association paper on a stereoscope September 1867
311
On reciprocal figures and diagrams of forces c September 1867
313
British Association paper on diagrams of forces September 1867
317
Letter to William Thomson 14 September 1867
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 13 November 1867
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 4 December 1867
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 11 December 1867
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 23 December 1867
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On the principles of stereoscopic vision c 1867
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exhibition of stereograms to the London Mathematical Society 23 January 1868
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Question to the London Mathematical Society on governors 23 January 1868
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draft on governors c January 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 20 February 1868
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On a paper by Joseph David Everett on the rigidity of metal rods c 25 February 1868
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Letter to George Biddell Airy 12 March 1868
351
Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 12 March 1868
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Letter to William Robert Grove 27 March 1868
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Letter to Mark Pattison 7 April 1868
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Letter to Mark Pattison 13 April 1868 page
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On papers by Francis Bashforth James Atkinson Longridge and Charles Watkins Merrifield on the motion of projectiles 19 May 1868
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On a method of making a direct comparison of electrostatic with electromagnetic force with a note on the electromagnetic theory of light abstract 10 ...
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On a paper by Alfred Des Cloiseaux on the optical properties
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of crystals c late May 1868
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On a paper by Robert Moon on the impact of compressible bodies 8 July 1868
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On the measurement of surface tension c Summer 1868
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 14 July 1868
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 18 July 1868
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comments on Thomson and Taits Natural Philosophy Chapter II July 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 18 July 1868
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait c 20 July 1868
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Letter to John Tyndall 23 July 1868
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stability criteria for governors of the fifth order c late July 1868
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On a paper by George Gabriel Stokes on the communication of vibration to a gas 28 July 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 28 September 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 6 October 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 7 October 1868
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on hollow solids c October 1868
450
Letter to William Huggins 13 October 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 16 October 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 30 October 1868
457
Letter to Lewis Campbell 3 November 1868
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Letter to William Robert Grove 7 November 1868
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Letter to George Biddell Airy 9 November 1868
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Letter to William Thomson 9 November 1868 page
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Letter to William Thomson 7 December 1868
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On the topology of surfaces 29 December 1868
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On J B Listings paper Der Census räumlicher Complexe 11 February 1869
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On a paper by Henry Moseley on the motion of glaciers 2 March 1869
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Letter to Arthur Cayley 12 April 1869
477
Letter to William Thomson 12 May 1869
479
Letter to William Thomson 5 June 1869
483
Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 26 June 1869
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Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 8 July 1869
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On a paper by Norman Macleod Ferrers on the motion of a rigid body 14 August 1869
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Letter to William Thomson 17 August 1869
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Letter to William Thomson 1 October 1869
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Letter to William Thomson 5 October 1869
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Letter to the London Mathematical Society on the potential of a disc November 1869
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On a paper by George Oldham Hanlon on the vena contracta November 1869
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Letter to William Thomson 16 November 1869
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 10 December 1869
517
On reciprocal figures frames and diagrams of forces abstract 17 December 1869
519
Drafts relating to Part IV of the Treatise c late 1869
522
Letter to Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell 3 January 1870
528
On a paper by William John Macquorn Rankine on fluid motion 2 March 1870
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On a paper by William John Macquorn Rankine on the thermodynamic theory of waves 26 March 1870
535
Letter to William Thomson 14 April 1870
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Letter to John William Strutt 18 May 1870
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Letter to Cecil James Monro 6 July 1870
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On a paper by Charles Bland Radcliffe on animal electricity c July 1870
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addition to a paper by Francis Deas c Summer 1870
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Postcard to Peter Guthrie Tait 12 February 1873 page
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait c early 1873
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On a paper by Frederick Guthrie on the electrical properties of hot bodies c 25 February 1873
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Postcard to Peter Guthrie Tait 3 March 1873
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Postcard to Peter Guthrie Tait 5 March 1873
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 10 March 1873
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Postcard to Peter Guthrie Tait 12 March 1873
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On a paper by James Jago on experiments on vision c 24 March 1873
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Letters to William Thomson 25 March 1873
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Letter to Lewis Campbell 3 April 1873
840
Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 2 May 1873
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 7 May 1873
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Letter to George Gabriel Stokes 13 May 1873
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 15 May 1873
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On a paper by Dugald MKichan on the determination of the number of electrostatic units in one electromagnetic unit of electricity c 20 May 1873
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Letter to Robert Dundas Cay 22 May 1873
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On the effect of gravity on the temperature of a column of gas c 25 May 1873
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Letter to John William Strutt 26 May 1873
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Letter to Charles Tomlinson 29 May 1873
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On a paper by John William Strutt on theorems relating to vibrations 26 June 1873
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On the theory of anomalous dispersion c 1873
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On a paper by Latimer Clark on a standard voltaic battery 26 June 1873
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Fixtures and instruments in the Cavendish Laboratory June 1873
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Draft letter to Henry Wilkinson Cookson 5 July 1873
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Postcard to Peter Guthrie Tait c 8 July 1873
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Letter to Henry Augustus Rowland 9 July 1873
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Letter to Henry Augustus Rowland 12 July 1873
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Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait 22 July 1873
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Postcard to Peter Guthrie Tait 24 July 1873
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Appendix
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Draft of On Loschmidts experiments on diffusion late July 1873 890
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James Maxwell was a British physicist who developed a standard theoretical model for the modern understanding of electricity and magnetism. He showed that these two phenomena are two aspects of the same field and as a result he unified and systematized a vast field of research. Maxwell took many diverse observations and qualitative concepts developed by Michael Faraday and others, formulating them into a unified theory between 1864 and 1873. On the basis of this theory, Maxwell predicted that electromagnetic waves should exist and travel with the speed of light, and he identified light as a form of electromagnetic radiation. Both of these predictions were experimentally confirmed. Maxwell's other great contribution to physics was formulating a mathematical basis for the kinetic theory of gases. Using a statistical approach, he related the velocity of the molecules in a gas to its temperature, showing that heat results from the motion of molecules. Maxwell's result had been conjectured for some time, but it had never been supported experimentally. Maxwell then expanded his research to study viscosity, diffusion, and other properties of gases. Maxwell also provided the first satisfactory explanation of Saturn's rings. He established on theoretical grounds that the rings are not solid but rather composed of many small, fragmented objects that orbit Saturn.

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