Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Author: Howard J. Fisher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781888009453

Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism brought about what Einstein called "the greatest change in the axiomatic basis of physics since Newton." But Maxwell's aim was never to construct an axiomatic theory. Instead, the Treatise presents an argument which, beginning with the most characteristic electrical and magnetic phenomena, and interpreting them as manifestations of continuous fields of electric and magnetic energy, culminates in Maxwell's theory of light as a wave motion within those fields. The argument of the Treatise is not straightforwardly demon­strative but is a dialectical one that can be challenging to discern among the many topics presented. This book undertakes to extract and expound the principal path of Maxwell's dialectical thinking.

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Author: James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1954-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780486606378

Volume 2 of the great physicist and mathematician's final elaboration of the theory of electromagnetism covers the study of solenoids and shells, magnetic induction, methods of observation, and terrestrial magnetism. Additional topics include the mutual action of electric currents, dimensions of electric units, and much more. 1891 edition.

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism; Volume 2

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism; Volume 2
Author: James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780343966010

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Magnetism: A Very Short Introduction

Magnetism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Stephen J. Blundell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0199601208

What is that strange and mysterious force that pulls one magnet towards another, yet seems to operate through empty space? This is the elusive force of magnetism. Stephen J. Blundell considers early theories of magnetism, the discovery that Earth is a magnet, and the importance of magnetism in modern technology.

Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940

Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940
Author: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1042
Release: 2005-02-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0080457444

This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken together. The biography of the author(s) is recorded, and the circumstances of the preparation of the writing are given. When the writing is of some lengths an analytical table of its contents is supplied. The contents of the writing is reviewed, and its impact described, at least for the immediate decades. Each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary items. - First book of its kind - Covers the period 1640-1940 of massive development in mathematics - Describes many of the main writings of mathematics - Articles written by specialists in their field

The Maxwellians

The Maxwellians
Author: Bruce J. Hunt
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801482342

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 with a key German contributor, Heinrich Hertz. It was these "Maxwellians" who transformed the fertile but half-finished ideas presented in the Treatise into the concise and powerful system now known as "Maxwell's theory."