Seminar series
Date
Thu, 25 Jan 2018
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Mark McCartney
Organisation
University of Ulster
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) was, by any measure, a natural philosopher of the first rank who made wide-ranging contributions to science. He also, however, wrote poetry.
In this talk examples of Maxwell’s poetry will be discussed in the context of a biographical sketch. It will be argued that not only was Maxwell a good poet, but that his poetry enriches our view of his life and its intellectual context.