The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: James Clerk Maxwell

• Mac Tutor [St. Andrews University]
• The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, by Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, 1882 (354-page PDF) [Sonnet Software]
• James Clerk Maxwell, by Frederick Seitz, 2001/03 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (PDF; nice pictures) [American Philosophical Society]
• Maxwell Year 2006: Celebrating the Man Who Changed Everything! (links to brief biography and books about Maxwell) [Maxwell Year]
• James Clerk Maxwell, by Christopher Haley (very good list of related materials) [Victorian Web]
• Who Was James Clerk Maxwell? (with "The Genius o' Glenlair" by Keith Moffatt) [James Clerk Maxwell Foundation]
• Who Was James Clerk Maxwell? by Samuel Callander, 2007 [Glenlair.org]
• James Clerk Maxwell [Undiscovered Scotland]
• James Clerk Maxwell [Famous Scots]
• The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell History of Science Chronology Project [University of Dayton]
• James Clerk Maxwell National Curve Bank [California State University, Los Angeles]
• James Clerk Maxwell [Adventures in Cybersound]
• James Clerk Maxwell [Clan Maxwell Society of the USA]
• James Clerk Maxwell IEEE Virtual Museum [IEEE]
• James Clerk Maxwell: Revolutionary Work in Electromagnetism and the Kinetic Theory of Gasses (short life under ads; lists of books and a set of external links) [Electro-Patent Invent.com]
• James Clerk Maxwell, by D. Paar [University of Zagreb]
• James Clerk Maxwell: A Force for Physics, by Francis Everitt, 2006/12/01 [Physics World.com]
• James Clerk Maxwell: The Creator of the Unified Field Theory of Electromagnetism, by Subodh Mahanti [Vigyan Prasar]
• Wikipedia (good external links)
• In Our Time: James Clerk Maxwell, by Melvin Bragg, 2003/10/02 (link to audio file) [BBC]
• James Clerk Maxwell (aimed at secondary students with a bit about Maxwell and cell phones) [Sci-Fun: The Scottish Science and Technology Roadshow]
• James Clerk Maxwell, 1997 (aimed at elementary students) University Corporation for Atmospheric Research [University of Michigan]
• Pioneers in Optics: James Clerk Maxwell, by Michael W. Davidson (aimed at secondary students and teachers) [Florida State University]
• James Clerk Maxwell (introductory information) [Philosophy Professor.com]
• James Clerk Maxwell and the Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs, by Gordon I. Ogilvie, 2008/02
• Writings:
  • Five of Maxwell's Papers [Project Gutenberg]
  • On the Dynamical Evidence of the Molecular Constitution of Bodies, 1875 Journal of the Chemical Society [Lemoyne College]
  • Experiments on Colour, as Perceived by the Eye with Remarks on Colourblindness, 1855 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (available in HTML or PDF) [Jim Worthey Lighting and Color Research]
  • Selected Poetry of James Clerk Maxwell Representative Poetry On-line [University of Toronto]
  • Forty-four Poems by James Clerk Maxwell [Poem Hunter]
• James Clerk Maxwell and the Christian Proposition, by Ian Hutchinson, 1998 and 2006/01 [MIT]
• The Religious Affiliation of Physicist James Clerk Maxwell [Adherents.com]
• Virtual Tour of Maxwell's Birthplace [James Clerk Maxwell Foundation]
• Maxwell and his wife Katherine Physics Songs [Haverford College]
• Grave [Find-a-Grave]
• The James Clerk Maxwell Statue Project, by Michael Atiyah [Royal Society of Edinburgh]

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