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James Clerk Maxwell

Young James Clerk Maxwell
Unknown author / Public domain
Poems by James Clerk Maxwell

  • In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section

  • Lectures to Women on Physical Science

  • Lines written under the conviction that it is not wise to read Mathematics in November after one’s fire is out

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More About This Poet
  • 1781-1900
  • Victorian
  • Europe
  • Northern Europe
  • Scotland

  • In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section

  • Lectures to Women on Physical Science

  • Lines written under the conviction that it is not wise to read Mathematics in November after one’s fire is out

  • Molecular Evolution

  • To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode

  • A Vision of a Wrangler, of a University, of Pedantry, and of Philosophy

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