Euler's Eyes
2026-10-14
History of Mathematics
Page 147 of 191
Image credits
Historical images and photographs
All come from Wikimedia Commons. We use the thumbnails provided by Commons, unedited.
- Portrait of Maxwell, engraving by G. J. Stodart, 1890: source page · public domain.
- The tartan ribbon, the first colour photograph, by Maxwell and Thomas Sutton, 1861: source page · public domain.
- Saturn seen from above, by the Cassini spacecraft, 2013: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, source page · public domain.
- Michael Faraday, photograph from the 1850s, unknown author: source page · public domain.
- Title page of the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Oxford, 1873: source page · public domain.
- The statue of Maxwell with his dog Toby, in Edinburgh, photo by Зеленый кабинет: source page · CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blog figures
The cover, the wave profile and the graph of the Maxwell distribution for nitrogen are original illustrations, with versions in each of the site’s languages. The graph was calculated with the exact formula of the distribution. The discussion of quaternions and vectors, in the post on the equations, draws on passages from this site’s old course on vectors.
Record
The file data/maxwell_imagens.json records the source, licence, verification date and SHA-256 hash of each downloaded image. The historical sources for each topic appear at the end of each post.
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