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 physi...

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