The Maxwellians

Bruce J. Hunt - Collection History of Science

266 pages, parution le 22/06/2005

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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."

L'auteur - Bruce J. Hunt

Bruce J. Hunt is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
References and Notation
Introduction
FitzGerald and Maxwell's Theory
FitzGerald, Lodge, and Electromagnetic Waves
Heaviside the Telegrapher
Ether Models and the Vortex Sponge
"Maxwell Redressed"
Waves on Wires
Bath, 1888
The Maxwellian Heyday
The Advent of the Electron
Epilogue
Appendix: From Maxwell's Equations to "Maxwell's Equations"

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cornell University Press
Auteur(s)	Bruce J. Hunt
Collection	History of Science
Parution	22/06/2005
Nb. de pages	266
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	418g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780801482342
ISBN13	978-0-8014-8234-2