The Scientific Papers Of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 2 (cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences)

The publication in 1890 of the two-volume Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, edited by W. D. Niven, was one of the two objects of a committee formed 'for the purpose of securing a fitting memorial of him' (the other object being the commissioning of a marble bust for the Cavendish Laboratory). Before his death in 1879 at the age of 48, Clerk Maxwell had made major contributions to many areas of theoretical physics and mathematics, not least his discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism and of the kinetic theory of gases, which have been regarded as laying the foundations of all modern physics. He is generally considered the third most important physicist of all time, after Newton and Einstein. These collected shorter works, beginning with a paper written at the age of 15, show the wide range of Clerk Maxwell's interests across mathematics, physics and chemistry. Frontmatter Contents ERRATA VOL II On the Viscosity or Internal Friction of Air and other Gases The Bakerian Lecture On the Dynamical Theory of Gases On the Theory of the Maintenance of Electric Currents by Mechanical Work without the use of Permanen On the Equilibrium of a Spherical Envelope On the best Arrangement for producing a Pure Spectrum on a Screen The Construction of Stereograms of Surfaces On Reciprocal Diagrams in Space and their relation to Airys Function of Stress On Governors Experiment in Magneto-Electric Induction in a letter to W R Grove FRS On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force with a Note on On the Cyclide On a Bow seen on the Surface of Ice On Reciprocal Figures Frames and Diagrams of Forces On the Displacement in a Case of Fluid Motion Address to the Mathematical and Physical Sections of the British Association 1870 On Colour-Vision at different points of the Retina On Hills and Dales Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics On the Solution of Electrical Problems by the Transformation of Conjugate Functions On the Mathematical Classification of Physical Quantities On Colour Vision On the Geometrical Mean Distance of Two Figures on a Plane On the Induction of Electric Currents in an Infinite Plane Sheet of uniform Conductivity On the Condition that in the Transformation of any Figure by Curvilinear Co-ordinates in Three Dimen Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism By Sir W Thomson Review On the Proof of the Equations of Motion of a Connected System On a Problem in the Calculus of Variations in which the solution is discontinuous