This may be accredited to the belief that the royals ruled due to a mandate from the heavens.

这可能是由于相信皇室是根据上天的命令来统治的。

Perhaps most importantly of all, James Clerk Maxwell, who is also considered to have brought about the second great unification of Physics (the first being accredited to Newton) with his classical electromagnetic theory.

这三位是现代历史中最著名的理论数学家。也许最重要的还有詹姆士麦克斯韦，他的经典电磁理论通常被认为带来了物理学的第二次大一统（第一次是牛顿）。