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Old Photographs Parton Scotland
Old photograph of cottages in Parton village on the banks of the River Dee in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. James Clerk Maxwell, born 13th of June 1831, died 5th of November 1879, lived at the nearby Glenlair House. He was a Scottish mathematical physicist. His most prominent achievement was to formulate a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism, and optics as manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field. Maxwell's achievements concerning electromagnetism have been called the " second great unification in physics ", after the first one realised by Isaac Newton. Also buried in the graveyard is Elma Yerburgh, born 1864, died 1946, of the Thwaites Brewery family from Blackburn, who lived at nearby Barwhillanty.
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