1864 in Scotland
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1864 in Scotland |
Years |
1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 |
Events from 1864 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 8 December - James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.[1]
Births
- 17 January - David Torrence, film actor (died 1951)
Deaths
- 6 January - John Clements Wickham, explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator (born 1798)
See also
References
- ↑ Maxwell, J. Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 155: 459–512. doi:10.1098/rstl.1865.0008. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
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