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Maxwell's Mathematical Rhetoric : Rethinking the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
by Simpson, Thomas K.ISBN13:
9781888009361
ISBN10:
1888009365
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Hardcover
Pub. Date:
7/1/2010
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Natl Book Network
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Summary
After many years of circulating in typescript form, this remarkable study by Thomas K. Simpson?a work long celebrated as something of an underground classic?is at long last available in a new edition worthy of its vision and depth. Green Lion Press is delighted to issue as a fine volume this work, the first major study of Maxwell's Treatise to take seriously the way Maxwell's presents his arguments. It is newly edited and presented in an attractive readable layout.
Table of Contents
| The Green Lion's Preface xi | |
| Editor's Note xii | |
| Author's Preface to the Green Lion Edition xiii | |
| Author's Preface (1968) xvii | |
| The account of Faraday's Theory in the Treatise | |
| Faraday's Thought on Electromagnetism | p. 3 |
| The nature of science for Faraday | p. 4 |
| Faraday's ultimate views on electromagnetism | p. 19 |
| The Translation of Faraday's Ideas before Maxwell | p. 39 |
| The "translation" of Faraday | p. 39 |
| The interpretation of "lines of force" | p. 50 |
| Magnetism and diamagnetisim | p. 79 |
| Interpretations of Faraday's electrostatics | p. 62 |
| Thomson's analytic translations of Faraday's ideas | p. 89 |
| Maxwell's Initial Statement of Faraday's Electromagnetism | p. 111 |
| The "direct" and "indirect" methods | p. 111 |
| The theory of magnetic shells | p. 114 |
| Commentary on Chapter I of Part iv of the Treatise | p. 118 |
| Ampere's theory in the Treatise | p. 141 |
| Electromagnetic rotations | p. 162 |
| Commentary on Chapter III of Part iv of the Treatise | p. 175 |
| Maxwell's Dynamical Theory of Electromagnetism | |
| Maxwell's Exposition of the Lagrangian Equations | p. 201 |
| Lagrangian theory in the Treatise | p. 201 |
| Thomson and Tait's derivation of Lagrange's equations | p. 207 |
| Maxwell's exposition of Lagrangian theory | p. 213 |
| The Meaning of "Dynamical Theory" for Maxwell | p. 227 |
| Physics | p. 227 |
| Metaphysics | p. 241 |
| The meaning of dynamical terms | p. 265 |
| Application of Dynamical Theory to Electromagnetism | p. 271 |
| The construction of the electromagnetic field | p. 289 |
| Completion of the dynamical theory | p. 300 |
| Resume of the dynamical theory | p. 312 |
| Conclusion | p. 319 |
| Bibliography | p. 323 |
| Index | p. 343 |
| About the Author | p. 351 |
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