A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873. First edition, first issue, the copy of The Garden Ltd., of Maxwell’s presentation of his theory of electromagnetism, advancing ideas that would become essential for modern physics, including the landmark “hypothesis that light and electricity are the same in their ultimate nature” (Grolier/Horblit). “This treatise did..... More
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