From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century

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Jed Z Buchwald 1985 London: University of Chicago Press xiii + 339 pp price £59.50 ISBN 0 226 07882 5 In this remarkable work Buchwald traces the interpretation and development of the foundations of Maxwellian electrodynamic theory in Britain and on the continent, roughly through the period from first publication of Maxwell's Electricity and Magnetism in 1873 up to J J Thomson's experimental work on the charge and mass of the electron in 1897. The contributions of many others are presented in detail.

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