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    James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist in the 19th century known for developing classical electromagnetic theory and showing that light is electromagnetic radiation. He wrote his famous Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1867 and is considered one of the most influential scientists in history for his contributions to physics and laying the groundwork for modern physics.

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    James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist in the 19th century known for developing classical electromagnetic theory and showing that light is electromagnetic radiation. He wrote his famous Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1867 and is considered one of the most influential scientists in history for his contributions to physics and laying the groundwork for modern physics.

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    James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist in the 19th century known for developing classical electromagnetic theory and showing that light is electromagnetic radiation. He wrote his famous Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1867 and is considered one of the most influential scientists in history for his contributions to physics and laying the groundwork for modern physics.

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    James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist in the 19th century known for developing classical electromagnetic theory and showing that light is electromagnetic radiation. He wrote his famous Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1867 and is considered one of the most influential scientists in history for his contributions to physics and laying the groundwork for modern physics.

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    Scientist during the

    Scientific Revolution
    James Clerk
    Maxwell
    Scottish Mathematician and Physicist
    Born: June 13, 1831
    Died: November 5, 1879

    He is regarded by most modern physicists as the


    scientist of the 19th century who had the greatest influence
    on 20th-century physics, and he is ranked with Sir Isaac
    Newton and Albert Einstein for the fundamental nature of
    his contributions. In 1931, on the 100th anniversary of
    Maxwell’s birth, Einstein described the change in
    the conception of reality in physics that resulted from
    Maxwell’s work as “the most profound and the most fruitful
    that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.”
    In the spring and early summer of 1867 he toured Italy. But most of his energy during this period was
    devoted to writing his famous Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.

    James Clerk Maxwell is most famous for his theory of electromagnetism, which showed that light was
    electromagnetic radiation. His theory is considered to have paved the way for both quantum mechanics and
    Einstein's theory of special relativity.

    He also made fundamental contributions to mathematics, astronomy and engineering.


    Andreas
    Vesalius
    Belgian Physician
    Born: December 1514
    Died: June 1564

    A Renaissance physician who revolutionized the


    study of biology and the practice of medicine by his careful
    description of the anatomy of the human body. Basing his
    observations on dissections he made himself, he wrote and
    illustrated the first comprehensive textbook of anatomy.
    Vesalius’s work represented the culmination of the humanistic revival of ancient learning, the introduction of
    human dissections into medical curricula, and the growth of a European anatomical literature.

    Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish doctor who is notable for his contribution to the science of anatomy of the
    human body. He was the first to perform public dissection on a human corpse, a practice that was unusual
    in the Middle Ages due to spiritual beliefs.

    His major work De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (“The Seven Books on the Structure of the Human
    Body”) commonly known as the Fabrica, was printed in 1543. In this epochal work, Vesalius deployed all his
    scientific, humanistic, and aesthetic gifts. The Fabrica was a more extensive and accurate description of the
    human body than any put forward by his predecessors; it gave anatomy a new language, and, in the
    elegance of its printing and organization, a perfection hitherto unknown.

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