The Man Who Changed Everything : The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

"Mahon has written a first-rate book on Maxwell's science and legacy."—New Scientist This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public.Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century.