Birthplace, 14 India St.: JCM's birthplace. Now housing a small museum run by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. |
Ed Academy 1828: JCM attended school at Edinburgh Academy from 1841 to 1847. |
Ed Academy 2010: This view shows remarkable little change in external appearance from JCM's day. |
31 Heriot Row: Home of JCM's widowed Aunt Isabella Wedderburn (sister of his father). |
Stairwell at 31: The young JCM and his cousin Jemima are reputed to have experimented with hot air balloons in this four storey stairwell. |
Stairwell at 31: Another view of the stairwell where JCM and Jemima Wedderburn experimented with hot air balloons. |
6 Great Stuart St: JCM's Aunt Jane Cay lived in a flat in this grand corner building in the New Town. The Great Stuart St frontage is on the left of the picture. |
St Andrew's: Church stands on the North side of George Street, Edinburgh. Maxwell's statue now stands at the east end of the street (below the Melville monument seen in the picture). |
St John's 1845: Episcopal Church stands at the corner of Princes Street and Lothian Road, Edinburgh |
St John's 2010: Modern view of the church from Lothian Road. |
Old College: Robert Adam's design of the east front of the new building for the University of Edinburgh. |
Old College 1827: East Front of the Old College, University of Edinburgh, as it was built in 1827. |
Old College today: This is how the East Front of the Old College looks in the 21st Century. The dome, added in 1887, is similar to that in Adam's original design. |
JCMB: The James Clerk Maxwell Building houses the Schools of Mathematics and of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh. It is situated at Peter Guthrie Tait Road on the King's Buildings science campus. |
JCM Statue (1): Statue of James Clerk Maxwell by Alexander "Sandy" Stoddart, Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland. Alex Fergusson, presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament, speaking after unveiling the statue on George Street, Edinburgh, 25th November 2008. |
JCM Statue (2): 25th November 2008, a crowd gathered around the statue of JCM in George Street, Edinburgh following the unveiling. |
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