Lives & Memoirs

The life of James Clerk Maxwell

Lewis Campbell · narrated by Daniel

2026

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The life of James Clerk Maxwell by Lewis Campbell. A public-domain classic, freshly narrated.

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29 chapters

1PREFACE.8m
2PART I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.26m
3NOTE. THE CLERKS OF PENICUIK AND MAXWELLS OF MIDDLEBIE.19m
4CHAPTER II. GLENLAIR—CHILDHOOD—1831 TO 1841.34m
5CHAPTER III. BOYHOOD—EDINBURGH ACADEMY—“OLD 31”—HOLIDAYS AT GLENLAIR—1841 TO 1844—ÆT. 10-13.40m
6CHAPTER IV. ADOLESCENCE—1844 TO 1847—ÆT. 13-16.39m
7NOTE.22m
8Chapter 1013m
9CHAPTER V. OPENING MANHOOD—1847 TO 1850—Æt. 16-19.52m
10CHAPTER VI. UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE—OCTOBER 1850 TO JANUARY 1854—Æt. 19-22.44m
11Chapter 1348m
12CHAPTER VII. BACHELOR-SCHOLAR AND FELLOW OF TRINITY—1854 to 1856—Æt. 22-24.49m
13CHAPTER VIII. ESSAYS AT CAMBRIDGE—1853 TO 1856.53m
14CHAPTER IX. DEATH OF HIS FATHER—PROFESSORSHIP AT ABERDEEN—1856, 1857—Æt. 24-25.55m
15CHAPTER X. ABERDEEN—MARRIAGE—1857 TO 1860, Æt. 26-29.48m
16CHAPTER XI. KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON, 1860 TO 1865—GLENLAIR, 1860 to 1870—ÆT. 29-39.52m
17CHAPTER XII. CAMBRIDGE—1871 TO 1879.51m
18Chapter 2048m
19CHAPTER XIII. ILLNESS AND DEATH—1879—ÆT. 47, 48.50m
20CHAPTER XIV. LAST ESSAYS AT CAMBRIDGE.1h 4m
21Chapter 233m
22PART II. CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE.39m
23Chapter 2552m
24Chapter 261h 8m
25Chapter 271h 22m
26PART III. POEMS.32m
27II. OCCASIONAL PIECES.30m
28III. SERIO-COMIC VERSE.34m
29Chapter 3141m

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