Lectures On Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century

the magnetic unit recently defined in his honor is not denominated a "Clerk " or a " Clerk-Maxwell," but simply a " Maxwell." His father was by profession an advocate, that is, a lawyer entitled to plead before the Supreme Court of Scotland; his practice had never been large and at the date mentioned he had retired to live on his estate. John Clerk-Maxwell was of a family, many members of which were talented, and not a few eccentric; to the latter class he himself belonged. He took an inTable of Contents Portraits of PhysicistsFrontispiece; PAGE; James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 7; A Lecture delivered March 14, 1902; William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872) 22; A Lecture delivered March 18, 1902; Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901) 38; A Lecture delivered March 22, 1902; Sir William Thomson, First Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) 55; A Lecture delivered March 25, 1902; Charles Babbage (1791-1871) 71; A Lecture delivered April 21, 1903; William Whewell (1794-1866) 84; A Lecture delivered April 23, 1903; Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) 94; A Lecture delivered April 28, 1903; Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) 106; A Lecture delivered April 7, 1904; John Couch Adams (1819-1892) 119; A Lecture delivered April 8, 1904; sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) 131; A Lecture delivered April 11, 1904; Index 143About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of his