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Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident (2022)
Journal Article
Klein, S., Elter, P., & Trujillo Vazquez, A. (2022). Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 55(49), Article 491002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aca8db

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident.