The Maxwellians / / Bruce J. Hunt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hunt, Bruce J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Hunt, Bruce J.,; Williams, L. Pearce,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell History of Science
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 8 halftones, 12 line drawings

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."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- References And Notation -- Introduction -- 1. Fitzgerald And Maxwell's Theory -- 2. Fitzgerald, Lodge, And Electromagnetic Waves -- 3. Heaviside The Telegrapher -- 4. Ether Models And The Vortex Sponge -- 5. "Maxwell Redressed" -- 6. Waves On Wires -- 7. Bath, 1888 -- 8. The Maxwellian Heyday -- 9. The Advent Of The Electron -- Epilogue -- Appendix From Maxwell's Equations To "Maxwell's Equations" -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index