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The Maxwellians /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
1991.
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| Colección: | Cornell history of science series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword / Williams, L. Pearce
- Acknowledgments / Hunt, Bruce J.
- 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