Maxwell's poem 'To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode' (P3 (a), (b))
The poem was first published anonymously in Nature in 1871. Its title refers to Peter Guthrie Tait, who first described fully the mathematical properites of the 'nabla' symbol. The text is a critique of John Tyndall's sensationalist approach to science. At the top of the manuscript is a Hebrew translation of the title. The dp/dt symbol is Maxwell's signature, standing JCM in his preferred electromagnetic notation. The poem is included in Campbell and Garnett's Life of James Clerk Maxwell. This photograph of the manuscript was probably taken on the occasion of the Maxwell Centenary Celebration in 1931.
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- Physical Location: Cavendish Laboratory
- Classmark: P3 (a), (b)
- Subject(s): Maxwell poem
- Origin Place: Cambridge
- Date of Creation: 1931 (probably)
- Extent: Digitised image: tiff: 2,400 dpi. (a) 55.3 MB: 4970 x 3890 pixels. (b) 53.4 MB: 4953 x 3770 pixels. jpg: 300 dpi (a) 2.12MB, (b) 1.61 MB
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- Format: Photograph
- Author(s) of the Record: TEI created from spreadsheet.
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- Physical Location: Cavendish Laboratory
- Classmark: P3 (a), (b)
- Subject(s): Maxwell poem
- Origin Place: Cambridge
- Date of Creation: 1931 (probably)
- Extent: Digitised image: tiff: 2,400 dpi. (a) 55.3 MB: 4970 x 3890 pixels. (b) 53.4 MB: 4953 x 3770 pixels. jpg: 300 dpi (a) 2.12MB, (b) 1.61 MB
- Material:
Glass negative
- Format: Photograph
- Author(s) of the Record: TEI created from spreadsheet.
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