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Matter and Motion
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Matter and Motion Paperback - 1991

by James Clerk Maxwell

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Dover Publications. Used - Good. Good condition. (Science, Matter, Physics) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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  • Title Matter and Motion
  • Author James Clerk Maxwell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Thus
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, NY
  • Date 1991-11-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Y02G-00856
  • ISBN 9780486668956 / 0486668959
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.42 x 0.42 in (21.44 x 13.77 x 1.07 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Force and energy, Motion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91023186
  • Dewey Decimal Code 531.11

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James Clerk Maxwell: In His Own Words -- And Others
Dover reprinted Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1954, surely one of the first classics of scientific literature over a thousand pages in length to be given new life and accessibility to students and researchers as a result of the paperback revolution of the 1950s. Matter and Motion followed in 1991 and Theory of Heat in 2001.

Some towering figures in science have to speak for themselves. Such is James Clerk Maxwell (1813-1879), the Scottish physicist and mathematician who formulated the basic equations of classical electromagnetic theory.

In the Author's Own Words:
We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in traveling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again. -- James Clerk Maxwell

Critical Acclaim for James Clerk Maxwell:
From a long view of the history of mankind -- seen from, say, ten thousand years from now -- there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade. -- Richard P. Feynman

Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. -- Carl Sagan