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Unidentified photographer, sepia photograph, prior to 1879 (i.e. taken within Maxwell's lifetime). Smithsonian Institution Libraries, accession no. SIL14-M002-13. · Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology ("Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library" collection), via Flickr Commons / Wikimedia Commons · No known copyright restrictions (Smithsonian Institution @ Flickr Commons)
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Sources
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Clerk Maxwell (Q9095)
- Lewis Campbell & William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, With a Selection from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings (Macmillan, 1882). Campbell was Maxwell's own school-friend from Edinburgh Academy onward; Garnett was Maxwell's personally-appointed Demonstrator at the Cavendish Laboratory, 1874-1879 -- a direct subordinate colleague, not a distant biographer. Near-primary: reproduces dozens of Maxwell's own letters verbatim alongside direct, named, dated testimony from Faraday, Stokes, Tyndall, Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Arthur Schuster, and Lord Rayleigh. Fetched and read in full (18,800 lines) via a public full-text PDF mirror (sonnetsoftware.com); third-party quotations embedded in it (Faraday's, Thomson's, Schuster's, Rayleigh's own words) are cited here AS QUOTED IN Campbell & Garnett, not independently re-verified against each quoted person's own original archive.
- Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews), "Editing Cavendish: Maxwell and The Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish" -- invited talk, International Conference on the History of Physics, Trinity College, Cambridge, Sept. 2014; published version April 2015 (arXiv:1504.07437). A historian-of-science's scholarly essay drawing directly on the Cambridge University Library Maxwell Collection and Kelvin collection archives, with page-level citations to Maxwell's own Scientific Letters and Papers (ed. Harman). Fetched as a PDF directly from arxiv.org and read in full.
- University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, "Our history" -- the Laboratory's own institutional account of Maxwell's 1871 appointment as first Cavendish Professor, the 1874 opening, and his successor's (Rayleigh's) subsequent formalization of the teaching programme. Fetched and read directly.
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St Andrews), "James Clerk Maxwell" -- scholarly biographical account covering the Cavendish appointment/design, the kinetic theory work, and correspondence with Stokes. Fetched and read directly.
- "James Clerk Maxwell Produces the First Color Photograph", History of Information (Jeremy Norman & Co. reference site), corroborated by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation's own account (clerkmaxwellfoundation.org) -- both independently converge on the 17 May 1861 Royal Institution discourse date, the tartan-ribbon subject, and photographer Thomas Sutton's role, citing the demonstration's original publication in Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, vol. 3 (1858-62), p.374. NOTE ON VERIFICATION LIMIT: this specific 1862 Notices archival document was not directly fetched and read this session -- the date/venue/publication citation is corroborated across multiple independently-authored secondary accounts that converge on the same specific page citation, not verified against the primary Royal Institution archive page itself.
- James Clerk Maxwell Foundation (14 India Street, Edinburgh -- Maxwell's birthplace, now a museum and charitable trust dedicated to his life and work), "First Colour Photographic Image by Maxwell". Fetched and read directly.