Nancy Forbes - Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field torrent

Category: Misc. Non-fiction, Science

Written by Nancy Forbes
Read by Basil Mahon
Format: MP3
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
By: Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-12-21
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio

Publisher’s Summary

Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field and devised a radically new theory which overturned the strictly mechanical view of the world that had prevailed since Newton’s time.

The authors, veteran science writers with special expertise in physics and engineering, have created a lively narrative that interweaves rich biographical detail from each man’s life with clear explanations of their scientific accomplishments. Faraday was an autodidact, who overcame class prejudice and a lack of mathematical training to become renowned for his acute powers of experimental observation, technological skills, and prodigious scientific imagination. James Clerk Maxwell was highly regarded as one of the most brilliant mathematical physicists of the age. He made an enormous number of advances in his own right. But when he translated Faraday’s ideas into mathematical language, thus creating field theory, this unified framework of electricity, magnetism and light became the basis for much of later, 20th-century physics.

©2014 Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon (P)2021 Tantor