The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Vol... - 9780521101356

The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 1, 18461862Author(s): James Clerk Maxwell, P. M. Harman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521101356, 978-0521101356\nSynopsis\nThis is a comprehensive edition of Maxwell's manuscript papers published virtually complete and largely for the first time. Maxwell's work was of central importance in establishing and developing the major themes of the physics of the nineteenth century: his theory of the electromagnetic field and the electromagnetic theory of light and his special place in the history of physics. His fecundity of imagination and the sophistication of his examination of the foundations of physics give particular interest and importance to his writings. Volume I: [tel] documents Maxwell's education and early scientific work and his major period of scientific innovation - his first formulation of field theory, the electromag.