The Maxwellians

by Bruce J. Hunt

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James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one of the most fundamental and fruitful of all physical theories. Bruce J. Hunt examines the joint work of a group of young British physicists--G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, and Oliver Lodge--along...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801482348

ISBN13:9780801482342

Release Date:September 1994

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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