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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.'
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Lee Martin
reviewed The Maxwellians on November 23, 2013
The Maxwellians
This is a very good book for understanding the relationships between scientists and how their mutual interests and competition can result in meaningful progress for both science and technology. Also, how interpersonal prejudices and politics can hinder great achievements. For readers interested in science and specially electromagnetic theory and its development, this book is a great read. However, I think it lacks clarity in explaining the physical models that the Maxwellians were trying to conjure up to explain electromagnetic phenomena. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of EM and science in general.
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