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THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES
Edited by SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
AND MODERN PHYSICS
The Century Science Series.
EDITED BY
SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.P.
John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry.
By Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S.
Major Rennell, F.R.S., and the Rise of English Geography.
By Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S., Presidentof the Royal Geographical Society.
Justus von Liebig: his Life and Work (1803–1873).
By W. A. Shenstone, F.I.C., Lecturer on Chemistry inClifton College.
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy.
By Agnes M. Clerke, Author of “A Popular Historyof Astronomy during the 19th Century,” &c.
Charles Lyell and Modern Geology.
By Rev. Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S.
James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics.
By R. T. GLazebrook, F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge.
In Preparation.
Michael Faraday: his Life and Work.
By Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.
Humphry Davy.
By T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Principal Chemist of theGovernment Laboratories.
Pasteur: his Life and Work.
By M. Armand Ruffer, M.D., Director of the BritishInstitute of Preventive Medicine.
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species.
By Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Hope Professorof Zoology in the University of Oxford.
Hermann von Helmholtz.
By A. W. Rücker, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in theRoyal College of Science, London.
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