The Maxwellians

by Bruce J. Hunt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801426413
• ISBN13: 9780801426414
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher