The Maxwellians

The Maxwellians
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0801482348
ISBN-13 : 9780801482342
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Book Synopsis The Maxwellians by : Bruce J. Hunt

Download or read book The Maxwellians written by Bruce J. Hunt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."


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