Best known for his theory of electromagnetism James Clerk Maxwell (183179) was Cambridge University''s first Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. Albert Einstein described his work as ''the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton''. He carried out brilliant work in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics laying the foundation for the kinetic theory of gases. This book published originally in 1871 summarises his work in this field. It inc