The Sunday Telegraph London, September 28th, 2003
The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell by Basil Mahon John Wiley, pounds 18.99, 226 pp pounds 16.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE WORLD , said Maynard Keynes, is ruled by little else than the ideas, both good and bad, of economists and political philosophers. But our day-to-day lives are at least equally affected by the discoveries of great scientists. We fail to appreciate just how much because we so swiftly come to take for granted the devices that are based upon those discoveries, devices that would have seemed either wonderful or impossible only a few ye...
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