IMAGES AND REVERSALS James Clerk Maxwell,Working in Wet Clay Thomas G. West " I f you can visualize the shape, you can understand ~e system."[3] James Clerk Maxwell, acknowledged by many to be the most important physicist of the nineteenth century, knew how to be a supremely competent scientist and mathematician. Yet, when necessary, he could draw on the talents of the artist and sculptor m for he knew if he could End a way to %isualize the shape," then he could begin to really "understand" the vast complexity of the "system." Accordingly, when he wanted to understand some deep and complex pattern in nature, he often dismissed conventional analysis and notation. Instead, he used the visual and spatial tools of the craftsman, mechanic and artist m modeling clay with wet hands to mold a tangible sculpture of the 3D image in his mind's eye. First Color Photograph The fame o f " M a x w e l l ' s Equations" has meant that the name of James Clerk Maxwell is familiar to most persons having any form of scientific training. However, the full extent of his work and accomplishment is relatively little known. Members of
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Images and reversals: James Clerk Maxwell, working in wet clay
West, Thomas G.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 1999
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