文档介绍：THE LIFE
OF
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
WITH A SELECTION FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE
AND OCCASIONAL WRITINGS
AND
A SKETCH OF HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE
BY
LEWIS CAMPBELL, ., .
PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
AND
WILLIAM T, .
LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM
WITH THREE STEEL PORTRAITS, COLOURED PLATES, ETC.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1882
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And SO thou wast made perfect! Not a friend
Might step between thee and the sore distress
Which thou with strong and patient godliness
Enduredst plaining to the end.
Heroic saint! Bright sufferer! Thou dost lend
To science a new glory. Midst the press
Of boasters, all thy meek-eyed fame confess,
And worldlings thine mend.
Shine on, pure spirit! Though we see thee not,
Even in thy passage thou hast purged away
The fogs of earth-born doubt and sense-bound thought
From hearts that followed thine all-piercing ray.
And while thou soarest far from human view,
Even thy faint image shall our strength renew.
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PREFACE TO THE 1997 DIGITAL PRESERVATION
(Second Edition, 1999)
Friday the thirteenth of December 1996 was a lucky day. Daylight, such as it was, found me
traveling south from Syracuse on Route 81 in a cold windy rain. I was going to visit an old friend
from Cornell, L. Pearce Williams, Professor Emeritus, History of Science and Technology,
Cornell University.
I had spent the previous several weeks searching library catalogs on the for a copy of
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell by Lewis Campbell and William t. This book was first
published in 1882 by MacMillan and Co. in London. Initially, my primary interest was to obtain
non-copyrighted images of James Maxwell to use in promoting software. Before actually
contacting any of the libraries which had the book, I