Author: James Clerk Maxwell

Publisher: Lehigh University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780934223348

. These papers shed light on the formation of Maxwell's ideas and theories within the structure of a professional scientific discipline, physics, that had only recently taken shape. While Maxwell responded to and relied on the work of his colleagues, his interpretations often placed his work apart from theirs, to be exploited by later generations of physicists.