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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