A Maxwellian Path to Maxwell's Equations
James Clerk Maxwell
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A Maxwellian Path to Maxwell's Equations

Chapters from Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Herausgeber: Fisher, Howard J
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This slender book opens a path through Maxwell's massive Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism that attains two important objectives: first, in Maxwell's own words and mathematics, it presents an overview of the revolutionary field theory of electricity and magnetism, from the most basic phenomena to the complete theory; and second, it shows, using additional original papers by Maxwell, how the four Maxwellian equations familiar to later physicists emerge from the more discursive general theory. The final part of the path, leading from the Treatise to the equations, passes, surprisingly and de...